Hard Laughter - Softcover

Lamott, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451110722 ISBN 13: 9780451110725

Publisher: Signet, 1981

Synopsis

A sensitive and reflective twenty-four-year-old woman chronicles her family's confrontation with illness when it is discovered that her father suffers from an inoperable brain tumor

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow,Some Assembly Required, Grace (Eventually), Plan B, and several others. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

Review:

“The appeal of this book is . . . that it has much to say about how a good family works . . . in times both hard and easy . . . It's a moving and strangely joyful book, a kind of celebration, and it's written with an assurance far beyond the reach of most first novelists.” ―Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

“If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb.” ―Suzanne Mantell, The Nation

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0451110722
• ISBN 13: 9780451110725
• Binding: Paperback