I Feel Bad About My Neck Author: Nora Ephron | Language: English | ISBN:
B000JMKNBA | Format: PDF
I Feel Bad About My Neck Description
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in
I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling,
I Feel Bad About My Neck is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages.
From the Trade Paperback edition.- File Size: 184 KB
- Print Length: 160 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0307388956
- Publisher: Vintage; 1st edition (August 1, 2006)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000JMKNBA
- Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,619 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Aging - #35
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- #17
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Aging - #35
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies - #51
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Essays
Never mind the grammatically horrendous title, this is one entertaining book of essays on the subject of aging, most especially as it applies to women. Whether it would be as funny to either: a). men, or b). people too young to know what aging really feels like, is debatable, but I can only say I found it a very deep, thoughtful and quick read.
It's also one that kept me laughing, that is, when I didn't feel like crying. Ephron doesn't sugar-coat, though she does pour on the humor. She lets out her true feelings on the topic of aging, which feels an awful lot like grief in some of her essays. That would make sense, though, to mourn the passing of youth as you'd mourn just about anything you've had and lost.
Though she couches things in humor, she's brutally honest. She's at her most poignant while speaking about the loss of her best friend, who died all too soon after discovering she had cancer. One day they were talking about the fickle and finite nature of life, and the next they were struggling to find a way to make sense of things, and to figure out how to say goodbye. Really wrenching stuff, but the uplift is Ephron's unfailing sense of humor. The optimism of that may be real or faked, but there's enough padding there that the reader can still come away with a feeling things aren't SO bad, about her neck or other, bigger things like death and dying.
This is partly a book about fighting the aging process, but not entirely. All the creams and surgical procedures are mentioned, and Ephron will tell you what she's done and what she hasn't, but that isn't the main point of the book. The point is aging isn't a walk in the park.
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