If Life is a Bowl of Cherries - What am I Doing in the Pits?

Bombeck, Erma

ISBN 10: 0070064512 / ISBN 13: 9780070064515

Published by McGraw-Hill, 1978

About this Item

Name stamp and gift inscription of former owner on front endpage, bend right by edge on head of spine covering. Dust jacket edges lightly rubbed. Red cover with gold lettering on spine. 203 pages.

Seller Inventory # 016540

Bibliographic Details

• Title: If Life is a Bowl of Cherries - What am I Doing in the Pits?
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070064512
• ISBN 13: 9780070064515
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 6th Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humor and Satire

About this title

Synopsis

Erma Bombeck assesses the individual's chances for survival in the seventies, dealing with such issues as the difficulty of replacing a toilet-tissue spindle and the recent discovery that lettuce is fattening

From the Publisher

This book hits home in the passage about The Mother Mystique. The one passage I'd love to share is my mother's metamorphosis with her physical appearance through the years. Of course, she had her role models, and by judging from her fashion tastes and family photos, my mother was carbon copy of the following women:

1959

Betty Crocker (apron and waffle iron included).

1963

Doris Day. This phase included a beehive do, box suits and pillbox hats. Que sera, sera

son.

1970

It's a story of a lady who looks like Carol Brady.

1978

Schlemiel, schlamazel look at me I'm dressing like Penny Marshall.

1986

Nancy Regan reds. Alternating with Barbara Bush blues. (Hairstyles not included).

1998

Golden Girl wanna be. Mom's outfits include Bea Arthur gray hair and designer seat suits.
-- Louis Mendez, editorial