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Carregando... Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect NewShoes (edição: 1994)de Caroline Knapp (Autor)
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Meet Alice K., thirty-something new-products editor at Green Goddess magazine -- modern, successful, elegant, desirable, and absolutely riddled with anxiety. The problem is that behind the lip gloss, the sixteen black skirts, and the fabulous shoes, Alice is convinced she is a fake and that somebody is going to find out. The first book by bestselling author Caroline Knapp (Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Animals), Alice K.'s Guide to Life is a hilarious and essential view of modern living with broad popular appeal. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Almost more potent than the story itself, the time capsule back to the '90s brought up a lot of memories and nostalgia for me. I'm old enough to remember days when you had to call people on telephones (that were attached to walls), not know who was calling you before you picked up the phone, worry that you might miss somebody (and they don't have an answering machine), and fret about long distance bills. You had to purchase things either in stores or by catalogues (and oh, the delight of perusing catalogues!). The World Wide Web did not yet exist, so forget about e-mail, cellphones, voice mail, text messaging, or any of those other conveniences of modern-day life.
It's also fascinating to read about the economic conditions of the pre dot-com boom, after Reganomics pummled the US into a recession, especially considering that I've weathered so many recessions now, most notably that following the housing crisis of 2007, of which I (and many others) are still dealing with the aftermath to this day. This sense of perspective made the book more interesting than it probably would have been if I'd read it 20 years ago (notwithstanding that I would have been barely a teenager back then).
The notable thing I disliked about this book is how heterocentric and "men are from mars, women are from venus" it is. Of course, it is a product of the times...
Highly recommended if you're a fan of Caroline Knapp, or if you just want to go back to Boston circa 1993. And if you haven't read Drinking: A Love Story yet, make sure you read it after this! ( )