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The Bassoon King

The Bassoon King

Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room

by Rainn Wilson
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/01/2017

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From the three-time Emmy nominated actor, climate activist, and author of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution--Rainn Wilson's memoir is about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.

For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: "I'm not on Facebook" is the new "I don't even own a TV") that now has more than four million followers.

Now, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up "bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word." The Bassoon King chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek ("the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers"), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about The Office, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá'í faith he grew up in.

ISBN:
9780451469434
9780451469434
Category:
Biography: arts & entertainment
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-01-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
202x135x25mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Rainn Wilson

Rainn Wilson is a three-time Emmy nominated actor and performer, best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office. He is the cofounder of the media company SoulPancake, host of the docu-series An Idiot's Guide to Climate Change, cohost of the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake with Rainn & Reza, and the host of the upcoming Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss on Peacock.

He is the coauthor of SoulPancake, a New York Times bestseller, as well as his memoir, The Bassoon King. He lives in Oregon and Los Angeles.

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