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Would everybody please stop? : reflections on life and other bad ideas / Jenny Allen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374118327 : HRD
- ISBN: 0374118329 : HRD
- Physical Description: 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Copyright: c2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary, etc.: | "A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Families > Anecdotes. |
| Genre: | Essays. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Would Everybody Please Stop? : Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas
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Table of Contents
Would Everybody Please Stop? : Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| I'm Awake | p. 3 | |
| Seconds | p. 10 | |
| Ask the Answer Lady | p. 21 | |
| Canonize Me | p. 28 | |
| Me, Flirting | p. 33 | |
| How to Tie-Dye | p. 36 | |
| Dream On, You Motherfucking Mother | p. 48 | |
| Would Everybody Please Stop? | p. 55 | |
| An Affair to Remember | p. 58 | |
| When I Meditate | p. 61 | |
| My Gathas | p. 65 | |
| Swagland | p. 71 | |
| Nothing Left to Lose | p. 79 | |
| Tawk Thewapy | p. 86 | |
| I Can't Get That Penis out of My Mind | p. 92 | |
| It's About Time | p. 101 | |
| Take My House, Please | p. 106 | |
| Faking It | p. 116 | |
| Can I Borrow That? | p. 119 | |
| My Gratitudes | p. 123 | |
| My New Feminist Cop Show | p. 128 | |
| Scary Stories for Grown-Ups | p. 132 | |
| L.L.Bean and Me | p. 147 | |
| Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow | p. 154 | |
| I Have to Go Now | p. 164 | |
| The Trouble with Nature | p. 172 | |
| Speak, Memory | p. 177 | |
| Can I Have Your Errands? | p. 182 | |
| How to Take Dad to the Doctor | p. 187 | |
| What I Saw at the Movies | p. 193 | |
| What I've Learned | p. 198 | |
| Salt and Pepper | p. 204 | |
| Roger Ailes's New, Enlightened Code of Sexual Conduct | p. 208 | |
| Falling | p. 211 | |
| Please Don't Invite Me | p. 218 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 223 |
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