Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood - Hardcover

Gillespie, Hollis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006056198X ISBN 13: 9780060561987

Publisher: Regan Books, 2004

Synopsis

In a poignant and witty autobiography, the NPR commentator uses a series of interlinked stories and anecdotes to describe growing up as the daughter of an alcoholic traveling salesman and a mother who made bombs for a living, her colorful adulthood, her offbeat and unusual friends, and her career as a radio commentator and flight attendant. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Funny and moving. Completely compelling." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Raucous." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Riotous . . . rib-crackingly funny." -- Vanity Fair

"Zesty." -- Publishers Weekly

"Riotous . . . rib-crackingly funny."--Vanity Fair

"Funny and moving. Completely compelling."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Raucous."--Entertainment Weekly

"Zesty."--Publishers Weekly

"Gillespie's irreverent wit and hilarious observations are reverberating far beyond the trailer park."--Writer's Digest

Riotous . . . rib-crackingly funny. --Vanity Fair"

About the Author:

Hollis Gillespie, a Writer's Digest Breakout Author of the Year, is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, the award-winning writer of "Mood Swing," a humor column published in Creative Loafing, Atlanta's major alternative weekly, and author of "The Ugly American," a travel column for Paste magazine. Also the author of Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch, which Vanity Fair called "rib-crackingly funny," she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with two cats, an incontinent pit bull, and her six-year-old daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regan Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 006056198X
• ISBN 13: 9780060561987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256