Tough Girls Don't Knit: And Other Tales of Stylish Subversion - Hardcover

Garmaise, Freda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316304409 ISBN 13: 9780316304405

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1990

Synopsis

Brief essays discuss fashion, fitting rooms, being blond, public scenes, cooking, cosmetics, good taste, nylon, nightlife, bread and purses

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The foibles, trends and incongruities of modern life receive a good-natured skewering in this collection of short essay-styled observations. Garmaise, Cockney-born, a former Canadian broadcaster who now lives in Manhattan, draws mainly on personal experiences that she has imprinted with personal panache. Owner of a handbag designated by her daughters as "the cargo of shame," she defends shopping with originality--"The practice of buying things one cannot afford is a degradation of shopping"--and proposes interesting ways to view television: "in the nude" or "while 'tellyphoning' "). Few current quirks, fads, media happenings escape the sharp eye of this wry advocate of individuality.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

After reading just a few of Garmaise's short but well-crafted pieces, the message comes through clearly: Here's a woman who says exactly what she thinks. She doesn't seem to be writing to see how many laughs she can get into a line; rather, she's just telling the reader what her life is about and what matters to her. She touches on such topics as food processors and other kitchen gadgets and the effect they had on her marriage; fitting room phobia (which makes shopping torturous); the dilemma of whether to be a beauty makeover or not to be. This is truly a funny book that public libraries with enough in their humor budget should add.
- Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learning Corp., Northbrook, Ill.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316304409
• ISBN 13: 9780316304405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264