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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?: Bestselling Author of Family--The Ties That Bind...and Gag! Mass market paperbound - 1985

by Erma Bombeck


Summary

In this uproarious encore to The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck confronts society's greatest challenge: surviving the Seventies -- the fears, the worries, the anxieties. She shares with her readers some of her deepest concerns: discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along; getting into the Guinness Book of Records under "Pregnancy: Oldest Recorded Birth;" leaving the world suddenly and knowing that no one else in the family can replace a toilet-tissue spindle. - Jacket flap.

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Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.

From the jacket flap

"See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud."
Art Buchwald
The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas.
"It's fun from cover to cover."
THE HARTFORD COURANT

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  • Title If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?: Bestselling Author of Family--The Ties That Bind...and Gag!
  • Author Erma Bombeck
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fawcett Books, New York
  • Date 1985-03-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780449208397 / 0449208397
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 4.16 x 0.69 in (17.53 x 10.57 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Housewives, American wit and humor
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 818.540

About the author

Erma Bombeck was America's favorite humorist at the time of her death in 1996. Ten of her 13 books, including Forever, Erma, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. She claimed her first fiction writing was the weather forecast in the Dayton Herald. Her favorite food was pasta, and her hobby was dust.
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