Talk Pleasant Memoir by Chast Roz (165 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated: First U.S. edition 2014. 4th printing per number line. Glossy pictorial boards in very good condition Lavender end papers with a gift inscription at top right of front free paper - hard to see against the lavender. Interior text block clean & tight; no other writings, no markings. Glossy pages with colorful cartoons amid text which mimics hand printing. * From the rear cover, "Roz Chast and her parents were practitioners of denial: if you don't ever think about death, It will never happen. "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" is the story of an only child watching her parents age well into their nineties and die. In this account longtime New Yorker cartoonist Chast combines drawings with family photos and documents, chronicling that "long good-bye." From a review by Alison Bechdel, author of "Fun House,"If you've ever wondered about the origins of Roz Chast's quavery, quietly desperate, anti-macassar-bestrewn universe, look no further. This grim, sidesplitting memoir about the slow deline of her meek father and overpowering mother explains it all. Bedsores, dementia, broken hips - no details are spared, and never has the abyss of dread and grief been plumbed to such incandescently hilarious effect. The lines between laughter and hysteria, despair and rage, love and guilt, are quavery indeed, and no on draws them more honestly, more . . . unscrimpingly, than Roz Chast.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition; Fourth Printing. 7.8 X 21.59 X 9.5 millime; 228 pages; color illustrations throughout the book. Minor creasing to the bottom corner of the last few pages. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Art by the author (illustrator). 7th ptg. 29147 shelf. Pictorial bds, purple spine. "Autographed copy" sticker. Signed on title pg. Clean text. No dust jacket. Collectible condition. By the wryly funny New Yorker cartoonist 228 p. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 3rd printing. Unread; illustrated boards show almost no wear. Autographed by Chast on title page. Winner of the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; finalist for the National Book Award. 228 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Near fine, no dust jacket as issued, light edgewea.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - #1 New York Times Bestseller2014 National Book Award FinalistWinner of the inaugural 2014 Kirkus Prize in nonfictionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the 2014 Books for a Better Life AwardWinner of the 2015 Reuben Award from National Cartoonists SocietyIn her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies--an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades--the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant shows the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - #1 New York Times Bestseller2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTIn her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the 'crazy closet'-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed.While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - #1 New York Times Bestseller2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTIn her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the 'crazy closet'-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed.While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.