The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
by:
Erma Bombeck (author)
"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff."VOGUEIt'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...
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"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff."VOGUEIt'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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345471727 (0345471725)
ASIN: 345471725
Publish date: March 1st 1995
Publisher: Fawcett
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Adult,
Self Help
Erma Bombneck is quite funny, she is sarcastic as all get out and while you know she exagerates for effect you can see that it's based on reality. She describes life as she lived it in the suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s and while instagram/pinterest perfection wasn't a thing there was an expectancy...
Bombeck had a column in the paper, and a monthly one in Good Housekeeping. One doesn't earn tremendous respect for waxing amusing about life and kids, but if one should Bombeck should get the lion's share. It doesn't matter how many women attend consciousness raising groups and learn that being a ho...
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