Bouncing Back: I'Ve Survived Everything-- And I Mean Everything-- And You Can Too

BiographyLarge Print EditionIn Bouncing Back Joan Rivers blends her explosively funny voice with deep compassion to produce a memorable book. Heres a fiercely honest, hilarious and moving tale of how one of comedys great stars survived the worst that life could throw at her her husbands suicide, estrangement from her daughter, the cancellation of her talk show, a TV boycott against her and financial catastrophe and how she bounced back to the top. Joan spares no painful detail in sharing the plan that enabled her to defeat all that threatened to destroy her in this poignant, uplifting, and richly funny memoir of a gutsy comeback against dismaying odds.

Can we really talk? Internationally known comic and bestselling author of The Life and Times of Heidi Abramowitz, Enter Talking, and Still Talking , Joan Rivers uses her characteristic verve and wit to candidly reveal how she hit rock bottom and made it back on top.

In one of the most original books of the year, the inimitable Joan Rivers couples a hefty dose of her inspirational ideas on overcoming anything in life with her trademark humor, to produce a book that everyone will want to read to learn how Joan Rivers overcame personal setbacks and tragedies.

As Joan says, the most obvious difference between her worst year and Queen Elizabeth's "annus horribilis" was that , unlike Liz, she managed to stay away from pastel-colored double knits. But, in reality, it was nothing compared to what happened to Rivers: in one year, she endured her husband's suicide, her estrangement from her daughter, the cancellation of her talk show, and near financial ruin. With unbridled humor, compassion, and relentless honesty, Rivers now sheds a sharp light on how she overcame these devestating setbacks to land on her feet and take the public by storm.

Bouncing Back is a very human, no-holds barred approach to overcoming life's setbacks. Anecdotal, funny, yet inspirational, it is sure to be another Rivers' bestseller.