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Wasn’t The Grass Greener?: Thirty-Three Reasons Why Life Isn’t As Good As It Used To Be
by Barbara Holland
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Trade Paperback, Fine.
- ISBN 10
- 015601176X
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011761
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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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Synopsis
Liquor cabinets, suntans, clotheslines, childhood, world wars, pianos . . . What do these things have in common? They are all headed the way of the dinosaurs. Children are opting out of childhood, liquor cabinets and pianos have vanished from homes, and unimpressive mini wars are the norm. In Wasn't the Grass Greener?, Barbara Holland shares her sentiments on this deplorable but inevitable outcome, as she moans and groans, wistfully remembers, and sarcastically decries the state of the world today. With a style reminiscent of E.B. White and a wit like Erma Bombeck's, Barbara Holland's short, sharp, and all-original essays are laugh-out-loud funny, whether or not you share her memories. An engaging reminder of the past, 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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5024-60721
- Title
- Wasn’t The Grass Greener?: Thirty-Three Reasons Why Life Isn’t As Good As It Used To Be
- Author
- Barbara Holland
- Book Condition
- Used - Trade Paperback, Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Harvest Ed., “A" Prt’g.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 015601176X
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011761
- Publisher
- A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 235
- Keywords
- Social Life, Customs
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