Confessions of a Worrywart: Husbands, Mothers, Lovers and Others 9780615600017

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 14890.00T
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: 247 шт.
При оформлении заказа до: 2025-07-23
Ориентировочная дата поставки: конец Сентября - начало Октября
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Orlins Susan
Название: Confessions of a Worrywart: Husbands, Mothers, Lovers and Others
ISBN: 9780615600017
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0615600018
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 09.01.2013
Язык: English
Размер: 216 x 140 x 17
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In her plucky new memoir, award-winning journalist Susan Orlins embraces her hang ups and faces lifes imperfections with wit and grit. While her friends smoke marijuana or drink to get high, Orlins becomes intoxicated by therapy visits. Eavesdrop on her confessions as she goes through psychiatrists the same way she goes through boyfriends. Orlins takes readers on a rocky but riotous journey from her starter marriage during college to her second marriage in 1979, after which she moves to Beijing. Her years in Beijing and her effort to adopt a baby there provide a fascinating portrait of an era in which eating bitterness was a way of life for Chinese people. She worries: Will I locate a child? Will I convince the Communist government to go along with a foreign adoption? In the chapter I May Have Ruined the Marriage, But Youre Ruining the Divorce, Orlins explores her separation with wry, wrenching self-awareness. She rebounds with a divorce party and then vibrantly portrays a cast of Mr. Wrongs, like one who--whenever he feels blue--swallows a pinch of his fathers ashes. During a solo bicycle trip in Paris, Orlins tracks down a boyfriend from 42 years earlier. No one could have anticipated the crisis that occurs an hour into their reunion. With her knack for stumbling into drama, its no wonder she worries. As Orlins ages, she misses her younger self and pictures paying her a visit. This imaginary encounter changes Orlins forever. Readers of all ages will relate to this deeply personal story, told with comical sensibility by a quirky, startlingly honest mother, daughter, ex-wife, and dog lover, who-- la Nora Ephron--will feel like a dear friend. Confessions of a Worrywart: Husbands, Lovers, Mothers, and Others will stay with you long after you finish reading it. Reviews A first-rate personal essayist, Susan Orlins delivers the goods time and again. Underneath her self-mocking voice, her abundant humor, her brio, there is the serious candor of a moralist who worries the problems that wont go away. -PHILLIP LOPATE, author and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay Susan Orlins is Americas funniest neurotic since Woody Allen. Just be careful you dont crack a rib reading Confessions of a Worrywart. -PATRICIA VOLK, author of Stuffed Susan Orlins combines the practical with the comical. A multi-tasking mom, she knows how to show and hide her feelings simultaneously. When you have the time (the kids are out of the house and your mom is in a home), read this book You will identify and laugh. -SYBIL SAGE, writer for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Growing Pains, Magnum P.I., Northern Exposure Toxic chemicals. Tomatoes. Getting the bed by the window in her future nursing home. Whats NOT to worry about? Just ask Susan Orlins, Americas funniest worrywart-not because you want to wring your hands, but because you want to laugh out loud. Her offbeat take on all challenges, great and small, is a delight. - DIANE MACEACHERN, Author of Big Green Purse

Confessions of a Worrywart: Husbands, Mothers, Lovers and Others, Orlins Susan