Anything Can Happen: Notes on My Inadequate Life and Yours - Hardcover

Rosenblatt, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151008663 ISBN 13: 9780151008667

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

These cautionary notes and hilarious stories pack the Rosenblatt punch. Anything Can Happen offers a class in "Tyranny for Beginners," warns about the snares and devices of dinner parties, explains the mind-set of barbarians, suggests the perfect gift for Mother--a wildebeest--and tells what happens when his dog's barking drives him to thoughts of murder.
Roger Rosenblatt forces us to laugh at the silliness of the world we have created, refocuses our minds on what really matters, and alerts us to the injustice and cruelty that lie just below the skin.

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Book Description:

Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2003, 0-15-100866-3

From the Back Cover:

"Rosenblatt is bright, funny and tells it like it is."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The author of the deft Rules for Aging returns with thirty hilarious and engaging tales about the everyday human comedy, compelling the reader to laugh out loud at the silliness of the world. Funny, ironic, and penetrating, Anything Can Happen is another rich and rewarding collection that demonstrates the agile wit that has endeared Roger Rosenblatt to readers everywhere.

"[Rosenblatt] goes for laughs, but there's always a grain of truth there."--The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
"A national treasure."--United Press International

Winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and two Polk awards, Roger Rosenblatt is University Professor of Writing at Long Island University's Southampton College. He writes essays for Time and for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0151008663
• ISBN 13: 9780151008667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208