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Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women (Modern Library Humor and Wit)

by: Nora Ephron

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.420973
EAN: 9780679640356
ISBN: 0679640355
Label: Modern Library
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 30, 2000
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: May 30, 2000
Studio: Modern Library

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Editorial Review:The classic Crazy Salad, by screenwriting legend and novelist Nora Ephron, is an extremely funny, deceptively light look at a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now. In this distinctive, engaging, and simply hilarious view of a period of great upheaval in America, Ephron turns her keen eye and wonderful sense of humor to the media, politics, beauty products, and women's bodies. In the famous "A Few Words About Breasts," for example, she tells us: "If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person. I honestly believe that." Ephron brings her sharp pen to bear on the notable women of the time, and to a series of events ranging from Watergate to the Pillsbury Bake-Off. When it first appeared in 1975, Crazy Salad helped to illuminate a new American era--and helped us to laugh at our times and ourselves. This new edition will delight a fresh generation of readers.

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- If i would have them, I would have been a differant person
It is a very interesting story about how I ended up reading this book. A couple of years ago, when my girlfriends and I were in college, a mutual friend of ours was majoring in women's studies and was required to read this book. We will call this girl Shannon.
To say Shannon abhorred it, was an understatement. She was completely horrified by some of the content of the book. She thought the author was a whiney, supercilious snob, who disdained anything that wasn't Manhattan and was thinking ... Read More

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- It's not at all like "I Feel Bad About My Neck" (the new book)
I bought Crazy Salad (the original edition, from Amazon, used), after reading the new "I Feel Bad About My Neck". I really enjoyed the breezy chatty style of the new book, and the personal, witty essays about mundane things (purses, beauty regime, food). Crazy Salad isn't like that at all - it is more journalistic and newsy, and the dated essays are about 1970's politics (incl. gender politics) and political figures that have since been forgotten (I was only a baby then, so forgive me if I don't ... Read More

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- I bought it because of the author
Gave this book to my daughter-in-law on the recommendation of my dughter, who says this author is very special....for women. We need all the humor we can get.

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- A New York Snob Speaks
Nora Ephron is quite sure of herself and her friends, and laughs heartily at the yahoos in the Midwest who cook and love their husbands. While her writing is often amusing, her attitude of condescension and wearying self-glorification is grotesque. And to see her way back at the beginning of the Women's Movement equally sure of how circumstances would improve for women is especially painful. She poo-poohs those who wonder if women's life will actually improve, (and her own "Encounter Group" partners ... Read More

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- Funny at times but some material very dated
I enjoyed part of this book. I laughed at a few of her stories but some of the chapters were so dated that I didn't know what she was talking about let alone whether it was funny. Maybe I was a bit too young to appreciate it all.

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