What if..
Subtitle: a lifetime of questions, speculations, reasonable guesses, and a few things I know for sure
By: Shirley MacLaine
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781476728605; 9781476728629
Subjects: Entertainers; Biography
Description: "Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if--What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? (Answer: He wouldnt bump his ass so much.) What if our political leaders actually led? What if Downton Abbey was full of Americans? What if, for some reason, I couldn't be creative and work? These are just a few of the what ifs that Shirley Maclaine considers in her new book written in the style of her beloved and laugh-out-loud memoir I'm Over All That. In What If, she speculates on a wide range of matters both spiritual and secular, humorous and profound, earth-bound and high-flying, personal and universal. This is Shirley MacLaine at her most funny, acerbic, imaginative, and irresistible"--