I miss you when I blink : dispatches from a relatively ordinary life / Mary Laura Philpott
- Bib ID:
- 8058820
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Philpott, Mary Laura, author
- Description:
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- Millers Point, Australia : Murdoch Books, 2019
- ©2019
- 275 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760524685 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just once or only at midlife; reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary; and advises that if you're going to faint, you should get low to the ground first. Most of all, Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don't have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course). You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you're not, and where you belong. Who among us isn't trying to do that?
- Full contents:
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- I miss you when I blink
- Everything to be happy about
- The perfect murder weapon
- Wonder Woman
- Lobsterman
- Mermaids and destiny
- Disappearing act
- P-O-I-S-O-N
- Good job
- This guy
- Welcome to the club
- The window
- Me real
- The ex-pat concept
- The pros and cons of joining the Ruby Committee
- Sports radio
- Rock you like a hurricane
- No safe place
- A letter to the extremely type-A person in distress
- Stuck in traffic
- Diane Von Furstenberg's apartment
- Nora Ephron and the lives of trees
- This is not my cat
- Ungrateful bitch
- Sloths on a waterbed
- And then the dog died
- Wish list
- The unaccountable weight of accountability
- Blind spot detection
- The joy of quitting
- I'm sorry, Mindy Kaling
- Try it again, more like you.
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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