Description: This listing is for a Lot of 4 Erma Bombeck Family 1 PB The Ties That Bind and Gag, 3 HC Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Aunt Erma's Cope Book & I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up I want to Go to Boise (Children Surviving Cancer). See Photos for actual book.Family: The Ties That Bind and Gag! - Syndicated columnist and bestselling author (Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession Bombeck here takes a look at the family grown and comes up with characteristically incisive, irreverent and pertinent wisdom. Her three children, now adults, and herself at the age where "you look wonderful," she provokes thought about the shifting family. Intergenerational relationshipsBombeck's with her parents; hers with her childrenand the amorphous family constellations of the '80s are explored by a master of the art of domesticity. Adult children who return to the empty nest, technology that needs to be mastered in kitchen and family room are grist for Bombeck's ever-ready mill. "Family is a perennial that comes up year after year" demonstrates matriarch Bombeck.SynopsisThe Ties That Bind and Gag - A cherished family reunion sets the stage of Erma Bombeck's predictably hilarious recollections of raising a family. Her conclusion: you can't live with them, you can't live without them...or can you...'I want to Grow Hair, I Want To Grow Up, I want to Go to Boise - Children Surviving Cancer - This is anything but a depressing book, although on occasion the reader may catch a breath or experience a lump in the throat. Essentially, what Bombeck presents is a series of anecdotes, interviews, and informed observations regarding the treatment of cancer in children and young adults.Aunt Ermas Cope Book - Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck." DALLAS TIMES HERALD - In this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test. Our Erma is on her way to becoming a sub-total woman.The Grass is always Greener over the Septic Tank - It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters. Make sure you check out my other listings to save with combined shipping . If you have any questions or need more pictures, email me and I'll get them out to you ASAP. I usually ship on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. We specialize in finding good homes for good books, toys, LPs, magazines and other treasures. Low starting bids and never a Reserve. Thanks.
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Sunland, California
End Time: 2024-12-05T02:36:27.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6 USD
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States