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, New York, 1978

About this Item

Very Good in a Very Good- price clipped dust jacket. Owner inscription to FEP. Crease to front flap. Short tears to jacket edges. ; 9 X 5.90 X 0.90 inches; 203 pages. Seller Inventory # 64132

Bibliographic Details

Title: IF LIFE IS A BOWL OF CHERRIES, WHAT AM I ...

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill, New York

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition; Third Printing.

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