Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

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One of America’s funniest women asks, “If sixty is the new fifty, when do I get to be thirty again?”

Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain age put on weight, got a really tight perm, and rode the backs of their house slippers into the ground. Oh, for those uncomplicated good old days. Today, your fifties and sixties are deemed your most creative years—you can’t lie around like a slug unless you suddenly want to be seventy with nothing to show for it. Luckily, in Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial, Nicole, creator of the beloved Sylvia comic strip and one of the pioneers of the genre of humor about women and their cats, guides us through the important decisions that come in one’s mature years: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation? Get plastic surgery or just a really good haircut?

Nicole applies her ironic wit to such topics as whether to lobby Harry Winston for a foundation to provide chauffeur-driven cars and diamonds to women over fifty or instead focus on finding a château to buy in France and turning it into the first nail spa in the Loire Valley or perhaps a shelter for French strays. She tackles a range of female obsessions: men, friendship, beauty, money, weight, and a few peculiar obsessions of her own, such as researching loft-size mausoleums with huge mobile homes your family can stay in when they come to lay flowers or angry notes on your grave, the very latest thing in burial arrangements.

With wicked humor and fantastic riffs that take you places you never expected to go, Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial is like Nicole’s idea of heaven: tiny cupcakes served continuously.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Broadway Books

Release: September 18, 2007

ISBN: 0767926536

ISBN 13: 9780767926539

Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

Nicole Hollander

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Broadway Books

Release: September 18, 2007

ISBN: 0767926536

ISBN 13: 9780767926539

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