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Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-Three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be Paperback - 2000

by Barbara Holland

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Liquor cabinets and pianos have vanished from homes. It's been over fifty years since the last worthwhile war. Doctors never visit and no one hangs their clothes out to dry anymore. In Wasn't the Grass Greener?, Barbara Holland shares her sentiments on these deplorable results of "progress," where entertainment has come to replace idleness and children are skipping childhood. Written with impeccable style and a sharp wit, Holland's all-original essays are laugh-out-loud funny, whether or not you're old enough to remember clotheslines. Not quite a peaceful stroll down memory lane, Wasn't the Grass Greener? is a straight-up collection of a curmudgeon's complaints with a shot of nostalgia on the side.

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When I was a child the doctor was God.

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  • Title Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-Three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be
  • Author Barbara Holland
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, New York
  • Date June 26, 2000
  • ISBN 9780156011761 / 015601176X
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.46 x 0.65 in (21.84 x 13.87 x 1.65 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.92

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"We sometimes hear it said of an iconoclastic essayist like Mark Twain or Russell Baker that he is a 'national treasure.' I vote to include Barbara Holland in this treasure chest."-The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Though Holland obviously means what she writes, she also is having good fun, not merely mourning and celebrating what has been lost but also taking well-aimed whacks at inviting targets."-The Washington Post

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