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Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial
Nicole Hollander
Hollander's book puts a much-needed humorous spin on getting older.
Broadway
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0767926536
EAN: 9780767926539
Hardcover
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One of America’s funniest women asks, “If sixty is the new
fifty, when do I get to be thirty again?” Nicole
Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a
certain age put on weight, got a really tight perm, and rode
the backs of their house slippers into the ground. Oh,
for those uncomplicated good old days. Today, your
fifties and sixties are deemed your most creative years—you
can’t lie around like a slug unless you suddenly want to be
seventy with nothing to show for it. Luckily, in
Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial,
Nicole, creator of the beloved Sylvia comic strip and
one of the pioneers of the genre of humor about women and
their cats, guides us through the important decisions that
come in one’s mature years: Accept the senior citizen
discount or feign indignation? Get plastic surgery
or just a really good haircut?
Nicole applies
her ironic wit to such topics as whether to lobby Harry
Winston for a foundation to provide chauffeur-driven cars
and diamonds to women over fifty or instead focus on finding
a château to buy in France and turning it into the first
nail spa in the Loire Valley or perhaps a shelter for French
strays. She tackles a range of female obsessions: men,
friendship, beauty, money, weight, and a few peculiar
obsessions of her own, such as researching loft-size
mausoleums with huge mobile homes your family can stay in
when they come to lay flowers or angry notes on your grave,
the very latest thing in burial arrangements.
With
wicked humor and fantastic riffs that take you places you
never expected to go, Tales of Graceful Aging from the
Planet Denial is like Nicole’s idea of heaven: tiny
cupcakes served continuously.
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