I feel bad about my neck
Subtitle: and other thoughts on being a woman
By: Nora Ephron
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780753156735; 9780753156742
Subjects: Middle-aged women; Humor; Attitudes; Aging; Large type books
Description: In this collection of essays, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself. She discusses everything - from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. Oh, and she can't stand the way her neck looks. But her dermatologist tells her there's no quick fix for that. Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years ("I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at") and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton - from a distance, of course. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Knopf, 2006; London: Doubleday, 2007.
Table of contents: title: I feel bad about my neck; title: I hate my purse; title: Serial monogamy : a memoir; title: On maintenance; title: Blind as a bat; title: Parenting in three stages; title: Moving on; title: Me and JFK : now it can be told; title: Me and Bill : the end of love; title: Where I live; title: The story of my life in 3,500 words or less; title: The lost strudel or Le strudel perdu; title: On rapture; title: What I wish I'd known; title: Considering the alternative.