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Andrews McMeel Publishing
August 1997
On Sale: August 1, 1997
288 pages
ISBN: 0836236734
EAN: 9780836236736
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Humor
A lot of columnists write words to end up in the
Congressional Record or on the president's desk or at the
Pulitzer Committee's door. But Erma Bombeck went us all
one better. Her words won her the permanent place of honor
in American life: the refrigerator door. Now we are again
at wit's end."--Ellen Goodman "Erma Bombeck may be gone,
but she'll live forever in her columns. A fitting finale
for the much-loved humorist." --
Booklist "Forever, Erma is a modest
measure of our loss." --The New York Times Book
Review Erma Bombeck's own aversion to producing
books of column collections over the years made the family
and publisher of the hardcover Forever, Erma
apprehensive about its public acceptance. The pubic
proved Erma's misgivings were unfounded. Within nine weeks
of the publication date, the book had climbed to number
three on The New York Times best-seller list. It
remained on the list for a total of fifteen weeks. Over
400,000 copies had been bought by her loyalists and their
friends and families. The success of the hardcover
edition expands Erma's literary legacy. Now the paperback
edition of Forever, Erma will reach new
generations. We all see ourselves in her words. Only
the emotional spectrum of this book matches its topical
diversity. One's feelings are reminiscent of the same
warmth and tenderness only Erma could portray, and readers
will be delighted to find their favorite selections.
Included with 188 other columns are her first, "Children
Cornering the Coin Market," from January 1965, and her
last one, "Let's Face It," from April 1996. As in the
hardcover edition, a tribute chapter includes remembrances
from some of Erma's family, friends, and colleagues,
including Phil Donahue, Art Buchwald, and Ellen
Goodman. Readers around the world loved Erma Bombeck and
cherished every one of her columns. Forever, Erma,
will give them a classic way to hold on to this most
gifted writer. As Phil Donahue said, "We shall never see
the likes of her again. She was real and she brought us
down to earth--gently, generously, and with brilliant
humor. When the scholars gather hundreds of years from now
to learn about us, they can't know it all if they don't
read Erma.
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