The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones - Couverture rigide

Loh, Sandra Tsing

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393088685 ISBN 13 : 9780393088687

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through the change. This is not your grandmother s menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering hormonal changes, and going through the ups and downs of a career and a relationship. She writes also about an affair and the explosion of her marriage, the pressures of keeping her daughters off Facebook while managing the legal and marital hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old dad, and a despairing withdrawal to a tiny cabin where she combined wine and Ambien, paralyzing her arm into a claw. In one outrageous chapter, a hormonal Loh finds herself trekking to her preteen daughter s school to confront a ten-year-old bully half her size. In another she attempts to subsist on only zero-calorie noodles and the occasional fat-free yogurt in a hopeless effort to vanquish added midlife weight. In The Madwoman in the Volvo Loh speaks hilariously and honestly about her life as a mother, a daughter, and an artist. She recounts her journey through a tumultuous time of life, trying to maintain appearances during an epic hormonal and that means physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual change. The upbeat conclusion: it does get better."

Revue de presse :

Loh is that rare writer who is howlingly funny on the surface and subtly brilliant just beneath. Here, she turns her eagle eye to her own midlife "crises": motherhood, marriage, men (old and young), and madness of all kinds not least her own. Goes down like cheap wine fast and furiously yet at the end, instead of a hangover, you have a bold and beautiful new view of life. --Cathi Hanauer, author of Gone and editor of The Bitch in the House"

...[a] frank and often hilarious account... --Daily Mail

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393088685
• ISBN 13: 9780393088687
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288