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Congratulations! Now What?: A Book for Graduates Hardback - 1999

by Bill Cosby

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In these hilarious short takes on the joys and frustrations of college lifeQand the realities of life after collegeQCosby provides graduates and their parents with what they need most: a dose of humor and down-to-earth advice.

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Just as a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, so a spoonful of humor helps the wisdom go down. In Congratulations! Now What?, America's funnyman Bill Cosby gently ribs college graduates about their time spent--or lost--in the hallowed halls of the university and postulates what four years of higher education have suited them for: "[If no job offer] ever turns up with a four-day week, a three-hour lunch, and a holiday for Count Basie's birthday, you still might be able to make a few dollars on Jeopardy." But he also assures graduates that their studies were not in vain and bestows advice to job seekers. Those who acquired several piercings while in school are cautioned to make sure the studs and hoops are shined before going to an interview. Those who are buffing their first professional rsum are advised to strike a tone somewhere between "lyrical lying and fanciful fraud."

Cosby, whose successful career as a humorist has always turned on his affection for kids, is a regular speaker at college commencements--in the chapter "As I Look Out at Your Foggy Faces," he says it's a hobby of his--and this 130-page book collects bons mots and sage advice from speeches given because he has "a feeling for anesthesiology."Graduates--and their now-broke parents--will find a reason to smile on every page. --Brenda Pittsley

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Congratulations! You have just finished four years of college and I wonder if you know what that means.

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  • Title Congratulations! Now What?: A Book for Graduates
  • Author Bill Cosby
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Books, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-05-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780786865727 / 0786865725
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.77 x 0.64 in (22.40 x 14.66 x 1.63 cm)
  • Age range 18 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 12
  • Themes
    • Event: Graduation
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Humor
  • Library of Congress subjects Job hunting, College graduates - Employment
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99024172
  • Dewey Decimal Code 650.140

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  • Booklist, 05/01/1999, Page 1555
  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 20
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/12/1999, Page 64
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