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Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial
by Nicole. Hollander
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0767926536
- ISBN 13
- 9780767926539
- Seller
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Albany, Oregon, United States
Item Price
A$26.34A$23.71
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About This Item
Broadway, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. VG hardcover in VG jacket. First Edition. SIGNED/inscribed by AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear to covers. Pages all clean/unmarked. Binding solid. Jacket unclipped, clean and bright. Solid w/lightest scuffs. 249 pp..
Synopsis
One of America's funniest women asks, "If sixty is the new fifty, when do I get to be thirty again?"Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain age put on weight, got a really tight perm, and rode the backs of their house slippers into the ground. Oh, for those uncomplicated good old days. Today, your fifties and sixties are deemed your most creative years--you can't lie around like a slug unless you suddenly want to be seventy with nothing to show for it. Luckily, in Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial, Nicole, creator of the beloved Sylvia comic strip and one of the pioneers of the genre of humor about women and their cats, guides us through the important decisions that come in one's mature years: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation? Get plastic surgery or just a really good haircut? Nicole applies her ironic wit to such topics as whether to lobby Harry Winston for a foundation to provide chauffeur-driven cars and diamonds to women over fifty or instead focus on finding a chateau to buy in France and turning it into the first nail spa in the Loire Valley or perhaps a shelter for French strays. She tackles a range of female obsessions: men, friendship, beauty, money, weight, and a few peculiar obsessions of her own, such as researching loft-size mausoleums with huge mobile homes your family can stay in when they come to lay flowers or angry notes on your grave, the very latest thing in burial arrangements. With wicked humor and fantastic riffs that take you places you never expected to go, Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial is like Nicole's idea of heaven: tiny cupcakes served continuously.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eastburn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A18640
- Title
- Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial
- Author
- Nicole. Hollander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0767926536
- ISBN 13
- 9780767926539
- Publisher
- Broadway
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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