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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir - Paperback

by Roz Chast
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roz ChastPublish date:2016-09-13Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9781632861016ISBN-10:1632861011UPC:9781632861016Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, NonfictionSize:9.20 x 7.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCDJS46C2T

#1 New York Times Bestseller
2014 National Book Award Finalist
Winner of the inaugural 2014 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the 2014 Books for a Better Life Award
Winner of the 2015 Reuben Award from National Cartoonists Society

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.

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; 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 shows the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9781632861016ISBN-10:1632861011UPC:9781632861016Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, NonfictionSize:9.20 x 7.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCDJS46C2T
Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine. She has written and illustrated many books, including the national bestseller Going into Town, What I Hate: From A to Z, and the collections of her own cartoons The Party After You Left and Theories of Everything. She is the editor of The Best American Comics 2016 and the illustrator of Calvin Trillin's No Fair! No Fair! and Daniel Menaker's The African Svelte, all published in Fall 2016. She was awarded the Harvey Award Hall of Fame Award.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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