Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
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Clifton Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 Ell
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814.54 Ell
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Gainesville Public Library - Silver Springs - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 Ell
1 available
814.54 Ell
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Livonia Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 ELL
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814.54 ELL
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Clifton Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 Ell | Available |
Gainesville Public Library - Silver Springs - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 Ell | Available |
Livonia Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 ELL | Available |
Macedon Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC ELL | Available |
Victor Farmington Library - Adult Nonfiction | 814.54 ELL | Available |
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176 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids; lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year; and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, and gathers up the courage to ask, "Are you there, Menopause? It's Me, Helen." A book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is chockablock with fabulous characters: cat-lady plastic surgeons and waterpark Adonises; bridge ladies and poker players; platinum medallion fliers and Garage Sale Swindlers; forty-year-old divorcées; fifty-year-old new moms and still-young octogenarians. Alive with the sensational humor and ferocious love for her friends that won Helen Ellis legions of fans, this book has a raw vulnerability and an emotional generosity that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.
Target Audience
General Adult.,Baker & Taylor.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ellis, H. (2021). Bring your baggage and don't pack light: essays (First Edition.). Doubleday, a division of Pengui Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ellis, Helen. 2021. Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays. Doubleday, a division of Pengui Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ellis, Helen. Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays Doubleday, a division of Pengui Random House LLC, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ellis, Helen. Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays First Edition., Doubleday, a division of Pengui Random House LLC, 2021.
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