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The Slippery Year [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

The Slippery Year [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

The Slippery Year [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
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The Slippery Year [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

by Gideon, Melanie

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New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed twice: 'For Allison, XOXO' and (separately) 'Now it's your turn! ' by author on title page. Stated 1st edition, no number line (1st printing). Essentially as new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 212 p. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'Wife 22' and 'Pucker'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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"We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy enough?"For anybody who has ever wondered privately Is this all there is, Melanie Gideon's poignant, hilarious, exuberant meditation, The Slippery Year, chronicles a year in which she confronts both the fantasies of her receding youth and the realities of midlife with a husband, a child, and a dog (one of whom runs away). She reflects on the exigencies of domesticity--the need for a household catastrophe plan, the fainting spell occasioned by the departure of her nine-year-old son for camp, the mattress wars, and the carpool line. With tenderness, unsparing honesty, and uproarious wit, Gideon brings us back again and again to the sweetness of ordinary pleasures and to life's most enduring satisfactions. She captures perfectly that moment right before everything changes and the things we have loved forever begin to fall away for the first time.The Slippery Year is the story of a woman's quest to reignite passion, beauty, and mystery and discover if "happily ever after" is a possibility after all.From the Hardcover edition.

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Title
The Slippery Year [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Author
Gideon, Melanie
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
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Edition
1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
030727067X
ISBN 13
9780307270672
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Date Published
2009
Pages
224

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