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‡dhowe |
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‡aChast, Roz. |
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‡aCan't we talk about something more pleasant? :
‡ba memoir /
‡cRoz Chast. |
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| 250 | | . |
‡aFirst U.S. edition. |
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| 264 | 1 | . |
‡aNew York :
‡bBloomsbury,
‡cc2014. |
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| 300 | | . |
‡a228 pages :
‡bchiefly color illustrations ;
‡c25 cm |
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| 336 | | . |
‡atext
‡2rdacontent |
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| 337 | | . |
‡aunmediated
‡2rdamedia |
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| 338 | | . |
‡avolume
‡2rdacarrier |
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| 520 | | . |
‡a"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the "crazy closet"--with predictable results--the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies--an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades--the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care" |
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‡aChast, Roz
‡xFamily
‡vComic books, strips, etc. |
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‡aAdult chldren of agin parents
‡xFamily relationships
‡vComic books, strips, etc. |
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‡aAging parents
‡xCare
‡vComic books, strips, etc. |
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‡aAging parents
‡xFamily relationships
‡vComic books, strips, etc. |
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‡aCartoonists
‡zUnited States
‡vBiography. |
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‡aAUTOGENERATED-21629
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