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...survivor of housework and motherhood, laughter is still the best revenge...
...crazy, it's climbing-the-wall time,' " says Bombeck. She is 57 now ("somewhere between estrogen and death," she mutters); her three children are grown and flown, and the elegant white walls of her fine house do not have crayon marks or grape jelly on them. But motherhood is a sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck and her fans have no trouble understanding each other. "I could move up to Alaska," she says, "where the nearest neighbor is 300 miles away, get there by dog sled, walk into the cabin...
...take risks with her writing, though she says, "You have to stand out there in your bloomers for a lot of years" before you have earned your readers' trust enough to try something radically new. Bombeck's readers have accepted a sharp departure in her latest book, Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession. Most of it is funny, the mixture of short pieces, one-liners and wry humor as usual, but there are several short, sad stories that have the quality of O. Henry's sentimental tales. One tells of a mother who died of cancer, leaving each...
...Motherhood, Bombeck...
NONFICTION 1. Eat to Win, Haas (1) 2. Motherhood, Bombeck (2) 3. Nothing Down, Allen (4) 4. Tough Times Never Last, but Tough People Do!, Schuller (3) 5. Past Imperfect, Collins (5) 6. First Lady from Plains, Carter 7. Balls, Nettles and Golenbock (6) 8. More from Your Wok, Better Homes and Gardens (9) 9. Caveat, Haig 10. Putting the One Minute Manager to Work, Blanchard and Lorber...