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Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation
Crown Archetype
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
Featuring: Joan Rivers; Melissa Rivers
304 pages
ISBN: 1101903821
EAN: 9781101903827
Kindle: B00Q1IFLRM
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Non-Fiction Biography
Joan Rivers was known all over the world—from the Palace
Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las
Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of
talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person
who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities
would call when she got a little out of hand. Her
daughter and best friend, Melissa.
Joan
and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated
mother-daughter relationships of all time. If you
think Joan said some outrageous things to her audiences as a
comedian, you won’t believe what she said and did in
private. Her love for her daughter knew no bounds—or
boundaries, apparently. ("Melissa, I acknowledge that you
have boundaries. I just choose to not respect them.")
In The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and
Manipulation, Melissa shares stories (like when she was
nine months old and her parents delivered her to Johnny
Carson as a birthday gift), bon mots (“Missy, is there
anything better than seeing a really good looking couple
pushing a baby that looks like a Sasquatch who got caught in
a house fire?”), and life lessons from growing up in the
Rosenberg-Rivers household (“I can do tips and discounts and
figure out the number of gay men in an audience to make it a
good show. That’s all the math you’ll ever need.”).
These were just the tip of the iceberg when it came to life
in the family that Melissa describes as more Addams than
Cleaver. And at the center of it all was a tiny blond
force of nature.
In The Book of Joan:
Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation, Melissa
Rivers relates funny, poignant and irreverent observations,
thoughts, and tales about the woman who raised her and is
the reason she considers valium one of the four basic food
groups.
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