| Edition |
First large print edition. |
| Description |
157 pages (large print) ; 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print rdafs |
| Summary |
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. In these twelve 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." |
| Contents |
Grown-ass ladies gone mild -- She's a character -- Happy birthday, you're still fuckable! -- She's young -- Are you there, menopause? It's me, Helen -- Call me -- The backup plan -- The last garage sale -- My kind of people -- I'm a believer! -- I go Greyhound! -- There's a lady at the poker table -- I feel better about my neck. |
| Subject |
Ellis, Helen -- Family.
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Ellis, Helen -- Friends and associates.
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Female friendship.
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Middle-aged women.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Large type books.
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Ellis, Helen. (OCoLC)fst00433984
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Middle-aged women. (OCoLC)fst01020409
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| Genre/Form |
Large type books.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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Essays.
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Humor.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Bring your baggage and do not pack light |
| ISBN |
9780593414101 (pbk.) |
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0593414101 (pbk.) |
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