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Author |
: Helen Ellis |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2016-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385541046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 038554104X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Housewife by : Helen Ellis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?”
Author |
: Margaret Dilloway |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2010-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101189245 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110118924X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Be an American Housewife by : Margaret Dilloway
A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.
Author |
: Helen Ellis |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2016-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101970997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101970995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Housewife by : Helen Ellis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?”
Author |
: Isadora Tattlin |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2002-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781565127210 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1565127218 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cuba Diaries by : Isadora Tattlin
Isadora Tattlin is the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana in the 1990s. Wisely, the witty Mrs. Tattlin began a diary the day her husband informed her of their new assignment. One of the first entries is her shopping list of things to take, including six gallons of shampoo. For although the Tattlins were provided with a wonderful, big house in Havana, complete with a staff of seven, there wasn't much else money could buy in a country whose shelves are nearly bare. The record of her daily life in Cuba raising her two small children, entertaining her husband's clients (among them Fidel Castro and his ministers and minions), and contending with chronic shortages of, well . . . everything (on the street, tourists are hounded not for money but for soap), is literally stunning. Adventurous and intuitive, Tattlin squeezed every drop of juice--both tasty and repellent--from her experience. She traveled wherever she could (it's not easy--there are few road signs or appealing places to stay or eat). She befriended artists, attended concerts and plays. She gave dozens of parties, attended dozens more. Cuba Diaries--vividly explicit, empathetic, often hilarious--takes the reader deep inside this island country only ninety miles from the U.S., where the average doctor's salary is eleven dollars a month. The reader comes away appalled by the deprivation and drawn by the romance of a weirdly nostalgic Cuba frozen in the 1950s.
Author |
: Curtis Sittenfeld |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 576 |
Release |
: 2008-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588367532 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588367533 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Wife by : Curtis Sittenfeld
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible “Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time • People • Entertainment Weekly A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the trajectory of her life. More than a decade later, when the charismatic son of a powerful Republican family sweeps her off her feet, she is surprised to find herself admitted into a world of privilege. And when her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with—and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona. As her husband’s presidency enters its second term, Alice must confront contradictions years in the making and face questions nearly impossible to answer. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Rocky Mountain News • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Washington Post Book World
Author |
: Pauline Hager |
Publisher |
: Pauline Hager |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2011-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
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ISBN-13 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan by : Pauline Hager
An American housewife's husband is offered a position in Japan to work on a multinational project. After much sole-searching they accept and their lives are never the same. Living in the countryside in housing specifically designed for Westerners, surrounded with friendly Japanese neighbors, and with families from The European Union, Canada, Russia and The United States, the Hagers endure. Life in Japan was a challenge: learning to drive on the left side of the road, decipher the labels on cans in the grocery stores, to name a few, but with the help of eager Japanese and their Western neighbors they thrive.
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Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1842 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:191115260 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Housewife ... by :
Author |
: Staci Greason |
Publisher |
: Booktango |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2012-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781468911527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146891152X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Great American Housewife by : Staci Greason
Kate Miller may be the last great American housewife left in Van Nuys. But as she sails toward forty on a wave of a pretty good (albeit somewhat boring) life with her husband and two kids, the death of her dysfunctional mother sends Kate out on a ledge and straight up a tree. Surveying her life from atop an endangered tree near the Fashion Square Plaza Mall, Kate learns more than how to fight for a cause. She learns how one frightened woman can actually discover her true self, one branch at a time and right down the street from her own backyard.
Author |
: Eliza Smith |
Publisher |
: Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2012-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781449428259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1449428258 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Compleat Housewife by : Eliza Smith
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.
Author |
: Tracey Deutsch |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807833278 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807833274 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building a Housewife's Paradise by : Tracey Deutsch
An examination of the history of food distribution in the United States explores the roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores.