Author: Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Author: Roz Chast
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Library Association Record
Author: Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
The Library Association Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in volumes 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to volumes 13-23, new series volume 3-series 4, volume 1.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in volumes 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to volumes 13-23, new series volume 3-series 4, volume 1.
New Library World
Author:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Cumulated Index to the Books
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees and the Librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia
Author: District of Columbia. Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Vols. for 1898/99- include the report of the librarian.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Vols. for 1898/99- include the report of the librarian.
Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and ... Annual Report of the Librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia
Author: District of Columbia. Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: District of Columbia. Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description