--- product_id: 18203233 title: "A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George" brand: "kelly carlin" price: "€ 63.54" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.cy/products/18203233-a-carlin-home-companion-growing-up-with-george store_origin: CY region: Cyprus --- # A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George **Brand:** kelly carlin **Price:** € 63.54 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George by kelly carlin - **How much does it cost?** € 63.54 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.cy](https://www.desertcart.com.cy/products/18203233-a-carlin-home-companion-growing-up-with-george) ## Best For - kelly carlin enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted kelly carlin brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uLfpZvBML.jpg) ![A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QZoTnx7pL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Therapy for the soul *by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2019* It took me several months to finish this book due to the weight of the emotional revelations generated by Kelly’s reflection of her life. Radical changes have been made to my perception of fame and my own un-famous perspective. Kelly is impressive not because of her famous name, but because we are so alike. It’s very possible that Kelly and I are  not-too-distant cousins, our Irish New Yorker lineage sharing the surname “Grady”, her stubborn branch refusing to give up the “O’” makes sense. Her memoirs are full of all too familiar struggles with codependence, raised by alcoholics, living in the shadow of her father, finding herself through understanding the mind… every step a loving tribute to life lessons learned the hard way.Kelly’s honesty about past relationship problems and years spent prioritizing the needs of others over her own, made me feel less alone in similar experiences. Her master’s in Jungian Psychology shows through her deeply self-reflective omnipresence of the shadow. She tells us how she feels in each memory in a way that we sympathize with her state of mind at the time.I very rarely weep while reading a book, but I straight-up ugly cried at several points in this memoir. The deaths of her parents, separated by eleven years (same length as her first marriage… hmm) instills the primal tension we all feel from birth. The loss of security, the relief of finality, and the desolate emptiness of grief are expressed in such a cathartic, therapeutic way. When I finished this book, I felt cleansed… relieved of pain and tension I didn’t realize I was carrying around.Kelly was brave enough to expose her deepest, darkest thoughts and Carlin-enough to give the reader a few hard belly laughs every few paragraphs. Behavioral psychologists could study the evolution of Kelly’s writing out from under the all-consuming Carlin light and still never conclude a winner in nature vs. nurture. Did Kelly inherit the genius acerbic wit of her father or did she have to work that much harder to distinguish herself from everyone’s favorite Comedy Daddy? Maybe it was a little of both?I enjoyed learning about Kelly’s life, thus gaining plenty of self-reflective perspective. I wouldn’t say this memoir is an “easy read”, but Kelly is an easy person. She expresses herself with the friendly openness of a good friend and a compassionate human, bringing people in while she heals them. Her writing displays these qualities like brilliantly colored vintage photographs under glossy pages in an album. The warm, gooey nostalgia of memories encased in time.Kelly makes me want to listen to everything she has to say because I know I’m going to learn something. Her writing somehow makes me feel both at home and homesick. I’m grateful to her for giving so much of herself so that this book can exist. It’s medicinal. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An insightful look on so many levels. *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018* Most people will buy this book because, like me, they loved George Carlin and want to know more about who the man was behind the scenes. You'll get that here in heaping doses but you'll get something else perhaps even more important: this is a not a book about George, it's a book about Kelly. You may detect a tinge of irony in that as you read on hungry for more juicy stories peppered with controlled substances, you'll transition to that notion on your own and you yourself may begin to understand what it must have been like being George Carlin's daughter as opposed to "Kelly." I think that may be the point after all. What I took away from it is something George Himself said: "You didn't get it from licking it off the rocks," meaning, the talent we knew from George, lives on through Kelly. I'm excited to see where she takes it. ### ⭐ Choose literally anything else *by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019* Ugh. I've never been so glad to come to the end of a book, knowing I would never again have to be bogged down in the super entitled, pampered and privileged perspectives of Kelly Carlin again. I mean, seriously, go in peace, my sister, or go in confusion . . . but go already.Don't read it. Go read something by George. Or really . . . anyone else. Anyone. 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