Edition |
First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
Description |
x, 402 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Hungry heart -- The outsiders -- ...And then there was Nora -- Road trip -- Fat Jennifer in the Promised Land -- Admissions -- Worth -- Not that kind of writer -- Travels with Molly -- Girl reporter -- Nanna's gefilte fish (Philadelphia Inquirer) -- Renaissance Fran -- My girls -- Two in a million (Good Housekeeping) -- With child -- Never breastfeed in a sweater dress, and other parenting tips I learned the hard way -- Nanna on the silver screen -- Appetites -- A few words about bodies -- The F word (Allure) -- "Some say a parent should teach a child to swim" -- Mean girls in the retirement home (New York Times) -- Judging women -- Twitter, reconsidered -- TLA: The Bachelor and me -- Miss -- One good thing -- Men and dogs: a love story -- Coda: Letter to Lucy and Phoebe (Time). |
Summary |
Presents a collection of essays that impart the author's views on such topics as family life, sex, weight, her mother's late-in-life coming out, and her own experiences as an unlikely feminist. |
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"Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an 'unlikely feminist enforcer' (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter and a sister, a former rower and current clumsy yogini, a wife, a friend, and a reality-TV devotee. In her first essay collection, she takes the raw stuff of her life and spins it into a collection of tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. Born in Louisiana, raised in Connecticut, educated at Princeton, Jennifer spent years feeling like an outsider ('a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch world') before finding her people in newsrooms, and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist. No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest stories: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother's coming out of the closet, her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F-word--fat--for the first time, Jen dives deep into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world. Hilarious and moving, Hungry Heart is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller."--Dust jacket. |
Subject |
Weiner, Jennifer.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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HUMOR -- Form -- Essays.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Weiner, Jennifer. (OCoLC)fst01559850
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Other Form: |
Online version: Weiner, Jennifer, author. Hungry heart. New York : Atria Books, 2016 9781476723440 (DLC) 2016029880 |
ISBN |
9781476723402 (hardback) |
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1476723400 (hardback) |
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