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Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank
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A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom
By
Celia Rivenbark
$17.82
Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback / softback, 262 pages | | Published In: | United States, 01 September 2007 |
Bestselling, award-winning humorist Rivenbark sums up American life--and especially the South--in all its glorious excesses and contradictions, in this collection of screamingly funny essays. |
About the AuthorCelia Rivenbark is the bestselling author of "Bless Your Heart, Tramp" and "We're Just Like""You, Only Prettier." She is a humor columnist for McClatchy-Tribune Information Services and lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter. Reviews"This is a hilarious read, perhaps best enjoyed while eating Krispy Kremes with a few girlfriends."--"Publishers Weekly""" "She kills in the ''Kids'' and ''Southern-Style Silliness'' sections, putting the fear of Mickey into anyone planning a trip to Disney World."--"Entertainment Weekly""" Praise for Celia Rivenbark and "We're Just Like You, Only Prettier""" "Will give you a case of the giggles." --"New York Daily News""" "Warm, witty, and wise, rather like reading dispatches from a friend who uses e-mail but still writes letters, in ink, on good paper.""" "--St. Petersburg Times""" "Even diehard Yankees will appreciate this wickedly funny collection.""" "--Dallas Morning News""" "North Carolina doesn't have a post for a 'humorist laureate, ' but it should invent one and install Celia Rivenbark." -"-Greensboro News & Record""" "I thought I was Southern until I read Celia Rivenbark's book....What a funny, smart, and irreverent writer she is!" --Lee Smith, author of "The Last Girls""" "Laugh-out-loud funny.""--Cleveland Plain Dealer""" "A collection of essays by a woman working in her element...Rivenbark writes with that breezy, irreverent allure that makes so many of these belles legendary.""---Blue Ridge Business Journal""" "An edgy Erma. An Erma dipped in corn-bread batter, wrapped in collard greens, and drawling that she was speeding because 'my uterus told me to.' "--"The Tennessean""" "A hoot and a holler.""--Boston Herald""" "I laughed so hard reading this book, I began snorting in an unbecoming fashion." --Haven Kimmel, author of "A Girl Named Zippy"
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Griffin | | ISBN: | 0312339941 |
| EAN: | 9780312339944 | | Dimensions: | 20.88 x 14.78 x 1.85 centimeters (0.24 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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