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

Name: Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781608198061

ISBN-10: 1608198065

ISBN-13: 9781608198061

Edition: 2014

Authors: Roz Chast

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In her first memoir, 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.When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”—with predictable results—the tools that had served Roz well through her parents’ seventies, eighties, and into their early…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Roz Chast was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 26, 1954. She received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1977. Her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Scientific American, the Harvard Business Review, Redbook, and Mother Jones. She is the author of several books including The Party, After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995-2003, What I Hate: From A to Z, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006, and Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir. She has also illustrated several books including The Alphabet from A to Y, with Bonus Letter, Z by Steve Martin.