Pucker Up!: The Subversive Woman's Guide to Aging With Wit, Wine, Drama, Humor, Perspective and the Occasional Good Cry

Pennebaker, Ruth; Henley, Marian

ISBN 10: 0986230707 / ISBN 13: 9780986230707

Published by Ruth Pennebaker, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pucker Up!: The Subversive Woman's Guide to Aging With Wit, Wine, Drama, Humor, Perspective and the Occasional Good Cry
• Publisher: Ruth Pennebaker
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986230707
• ISBN 13: 9780986230707
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

PUCKER UP! is a wry, irreverent, and poignant book on aging well. It's lavishly illustrated and lightly organized.

About the Author

Ruth Pennebaker is an author, columnist, public radio commentator, and blogger. PUCKER UP!, a wry, irreverent, and poignant book on aging, is her eighth book. She also wrote WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKTHROUGH, an adult novel, and three highly acclaimed young-adult novels, DON'T THINK TWICE, CONDITIONS OF LOVE, and BOTH SIDES NOW. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Dallas Morning News, Texas Observer, Parents, Redbook, McCall's, Cooking Light, and other nationwide publications. Ruth lives in Austin, with her mad-scientist husband. Her hobbies are reading, yoga, social criticism, and free-form worrying. A card-carrying member of the Chickasaw Nation, Ruth was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, close to a refinery. She holds a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Eckerd College and, for reasons that now elude her, a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law. Ruth also blogs at www.geezersisters.com. Marian Henley is a cartoonist, artist, and author whose work has appeared since 1981 in many U.S. publications such as Funny TImes, Austin Chronicle, LA Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, MS. Glamour, MAD, newsletters for Hawaiian polygamists, recovery books for renegade Scientologists, funny sex books from the Kinsey Institute, and, yes, we had better stop right there. Her work has been translated for foreign publication into Russian, Swedish, Italian, and Spanish. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband Rick, son William, and numerous cats and dogs.