Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories (P.S.) - Softcover

Kaplan, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060548525 ISBN 13: 9780060548520

Publisher: William Morrow, 2008

Synopsis

Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This, once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day—including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population.

Leave the Building Quickly is a hilarious, moving, bitingly honest, take-no-prisoners incursion into the kind of real-life daily circumstances that inspire us to crouch in the linen closet at three in the morning. But that's okay because Kaplan's there, too. And she's brought snacks.

About this title

About the Author:

Writer and actress Cynthia Kaplan's essays have been published in many newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, and she is the author of the collection Why I'm Like This. She has appeared in clubs, theaters, and on film, but never on Law & Order. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.

From Booklist:

What is more life-affirming than the ability to laugh at oneself? In her second collection of true stories (after Why I'm Like This, 2002), writer and actress Kaplan once again taps into the self-deprecation vein—to wise, poignant, and often hilarious effect. Although her family may not be as nutty as David Sedaris', and she doesn't embrace Jesus with the zeal of Anne Lamott (Kaplan is Jewish, though increasingly skeptical about her faith), she knows how to turn random happenings into moments of revelation. Kaplan tackles topics both large and small, from a good friend succumbing to cancer to the uncoolest of family vacations aboard a Disney cruise. Copping an attitude, coping with an unpronounceable lung ailment, negotiating with her horny husband about post pregnancy sex—it's all fodder for Kaplan, whose deadpan humor speaks to the neurotic in us all. Some entries are better than others, but at her best, as in "Losing My Religion," Kaplan serves perfectly mixed narratives that are one part melancholy, two parts wry. Block, Allison

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060548525
• ISBN 13: 9780060548520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240