Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith and Idiocy

Product Description

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.

'Filled with genuinely fascinating stories about his unusual upbringing, his entrée into the comedy world and his thoughtfully developed views on life, Wilson's book is an unsurprisingly funny and surprisingly poignant entry in the cavalcade of celebrity memoirs.' BookPage

'Wilson's hilarious book is a brisk, delightful read for his devoted fans.' American Way

'Wilson's story is engaging . . . Readers will relish his experiences as Dwight Schrute (who contributes the book's foreword) in The Office - snagging the part, the show's debut, the actors and writers, and behind-the-scenes reminiscences.' Publishers Weekly

' Wilson shares the ups and downs of his journey to fame in this funny and frank memoir . . . of particular interest to aspiring actors and other creative types, as well as the many fans of the long-running NBC comedy.' Booklist

'Certainly for fans of The Office, but the amiable actor also offers thoughtful glimpses into the realities of the TV and film industry and an impassioned rationale for living an openly spiritual life.' Kirkus Reviews