What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0824522850 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Christine Alexander is Professor of English at the University of New South Wales. Her books include the multi-volume Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte (1987-91), The Art of the Brontes (1995), and the British-academy prize-winning book The Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte (1982).She has also published widely on gothic literature, Jane Austen, critical editing, literary juvenilia, a
"What Sedaris, Lebowitz and Dave Eggers should aspire to." according to WHB in Burbank. Margaret Smith is a one-of-a-kind comedian. Her off-kilter worldview and dry-as-dust delivery is fresh and real in a world of grinning comedy clones. My favorite Margaret Smith-ism goes something like "I saw my mother today. (long pause) Its okay, she didn't see me." I'm not always able to catch her on tv like I used to, so I was delighted to hear she'd written. Not funny at all, unfortunately I bought this book thinking it would be filled with zippy one-liners and good-humored stories about raising a happy kid on your own while keeping on top of a successful career. The title made me expect I'd be entertained. I had hoped for something in the style of Erma Bombeck as a Single Mom. This book is not that at all.Instead, it's the story of the author's . single mother said Very Funny, Sometimes Dark, Laugh out Loud. I heard the Author on an NPR Radio Show talking about this book. The interview was funny and it motivated me to buy the book. It was an easy an enjoyable read. Laughed many times out loud. It felt alot like a David Sedaris style of writing. The humor sometimes dark. I especially liked her childhood stories. If you grew up with Mary Poppins and Ward Cleaver as p
Margaret Smith is Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham. Her books include the multi-volume Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte (1987-91), The Art of the Brontes (1995), and the British-academy prize-winning book The Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte (1982).She has also published widely on gothic literature, Jane Austen, critical editing, literary juvenilia, and landscape gardening. She has edited many of the Brontes' works, includingThe Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and the Bronte letters.. About the Author Christine Alexander is Professor of English at the University of New South Wales
Blithely disregarding conventional wisdom that female comics must labor within proscribed borders, one of America's senior comedic writers describes what she thought it would be like--and what it was really like-- to become a single mother.