The Rest of Us

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Flamingo
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 255 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Bringing Together Many Years Of Writing And Living, Spanning Everything From Garage Sales To The Ups And Downs Of Life For The Long Haul Single Mother, Mitchard Concocts A Graceful Blend Of Humour, Vinegar And Eloquence, Reminding Us That No Matter How We Change Or How We Range, We Are All 'the Rest Of Us'.

Publishers Description: Jacquelyn Mitchard reaches for heart and mind simultaneously, with both wit and nostalgia but never with sentimentality. Whether writing of gun laws and garage sales, the loneliness of the long-haul single mother, fear of gardening, or the late great American game of baseball, Mitchard stresses the personal stake each of us has in the stand-up drama of daily life. The single mother of five children, she shares her own family's dramas and epiphanies - her own mother's tradition of optimism based on nothing, the early death of her husband, the adoption of her baby daughter - as well as the great wheeling issues that confound 1990s Americans every day. If Jacquelyn Mitchard wore a T-shirt, it would say, "What are you waiting for?" Along with only a few writers of our time - Judith Viorst, Anna Quindlen, Erma Bombeck - Jacquelyn Mitchard is able to concoct a graceful blend of humor, vinegar and eloquence that reminds us that no matter how we change or how far we range, we are all "the rest of us."

ISBN: 9780006551126