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Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
Blue Rider Press
March 2014
On Sale: March 6, 2014
256 pages ISBN: 0399166181 EAN: 9780399166181 Kindle: B00DGZKKZG Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with I
See You Made an Effort, a book of essays so wickedly
funny it may make you forget your last birthday. Not one to
shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the “slyly
subversive” (O, The Oprah Magazine) Gurwitch
confronts the various indignities faced by femmes d’un
certain age with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of
hilarious self-deprecation. Whether
falling in lust at the Genius bar, navigating the
extensive—and treacherously expensive—anti aging offerings
at a department-store beauty counter, coping with the
assisted suicide of her best friend, negotiating the ins and
outs of acceptable behavior with her teenage kid, or the
thudding financial reality of the “never-tirement”
generation that leads her to petty theft, Gurwitch’s essays
prove her a remarkably astute writer in her prime (in so
many ways). Is this the beginning of the Eileen Fisher
years? Where does one conduct an affair with a younger man?
Is 50 the new 40? Or is 50 still just…50?
Scorchingly honest, surreally and riotously funny, I See
You Made an Effort is the ultimate coming-of-middle-age
story and a must-read for women of all ages. Reading glasses
not included.
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