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

203 pages, b/w illustrations by Hal Just; 8vo, red boards. Near fine; dust jacket very good, slightly curled sunned top. Seller Inventory # 021486

Bibliographic Details

Title: If Life is a Bowl of Cherries: What Am I ...

Publisher: McGraw Hill, New York

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Just, Hal

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First 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