All Over the Map Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road

Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut-and he's just as richly, gloriously funny on the page as on stage.
His legion of fans-the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is sold out-recognize Ron James as one of the great stand-ups of his generation. His seemingly improvisational flights of fancy-no two shows are ever the same-are crammed with inventive phrase-making, feature a voluminous vocabulary, and put every word into the service of uproarious comedy.
He sounds like a man born to write a great book-and now at last he has. But this is a book he has been writing for most of his life, in his head, in his car, while driving from gig to gig.
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