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Knopf
August 2009
On Sale: August 4, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 030727067X
EAN: 9780307270672
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we
could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other
and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you
have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy?
Really happy? Happy enough?” For anybody who has ever wondered privately Is this all
there is, Melanie Gideon’s poignant, hilarious, exuberant
meditation, The Slippery Year, chronicles a year in which
she confronts both the fantasies of her receding youth and
the realities of midlife with a husband, a child, and a dog
(one of whom runs away). She reflects on the exigencies of
domesticity--the need for a household catastrophe plan, the
fainting spell occasioned by the departure of her
nine-year-old son for camp, the mattress wars, and the
carpool line. With tenderness, unsparing honesty, and
uproarious wit, Gideon brings us back again and again to the
sweetness of ordinary pleasures and to life’s most enduring
satisfactions. She captures perfectly that moment right
before everything changes and the things we have loved
forever begin to fall away for the first time. The Slippery Year is the story of a woman’s quest to
reignite passion, beauty, and mystery and discover if
“happily ever after” is a possibility after all.
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