Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life - Softcover

Kogan, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061735035 ISBN 13: 9780061735035

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2014

Synopsis

-[Kogan's] wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all.- -- Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and Finding Your Own North Star -Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith, and poignancy. If David Sedaris were a girl... this is the book he'd write.- -- Evan Handler, author of It's Only Temporary Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a collection of the hilarious and poignant essays from beloved O Magazine columnist Lisa Kogan. Writing in the vein of Nora Ephron, Kogan has been called -the Erma Bombeck of our generation- (Kelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place and Lift). In Someone Will Be with You Shortly, she brings her trademark humor to such real-life quandaries as single motherhood, aging, and sex.

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Review:

"Kogan's riffs on motherhood, politics, relationships, and life itself are what we wish we'd said, only sharper and funnier. This is good stuff."--O magazine

"Her wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all. Buy it, if not to keep Lisa writing, then as an investment in your own happiness. God knows you deserve one fail-safe investment."--Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and Finding Your Own North Star

"In delectable bite-size essays, humor columnist Kogan casts an all-seeing eye on the annoying and hilarious idiosyncrasies of contemporary life."--Redbook Magazine

"Kogan delivers stylish and funny meditations on being a single mom, Rush Limbaugh, modern media and much more. There's laughter here, sure, but this book winningly rises above comedy to reveal a moving love of life."--Time Out New York

"It's no mystery why O magazine's Lisa Kogan is a beloved columnist. She's self-deprecating enough to be easily relatable, whimsical enough to be reliably entertaining, and clever enough to disguise a gut-socking revelation."--Elle

"Lisa Kogan is the intellectual and creative love child of Noel Coward and Loretta Lynn. Someone Will Be With You Shortly is a hilarious, honest and tender chronical of everyday life as most of us really live it. Lisa Kogan sings all the right grace notes with absolutely perfect pitch."--Amy Dickinson, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville

"Lisa Kogan has a singularly humane stance as she makes comic sense of the annoying and baffling facts of life. The inventor of 'the dessert potato' has made me laugh for years-she's been a comfort, too."--Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories

"Lisa Kogan might just be the Erma Bombeck of our generation. Sassy, blunt, and so damn true."--Kelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place and LIFT

"I admit it. I'm a big, drooling Lisa Kogan groupie. I'd read the ingredients on a cereal box if I thought she'd written them. She is funny, wise, compelling, loveable, fallible...So a whole book by her? What heaven!!"--Peggy Orenstein, author of Waiting for Daisy

"If Lisa Kogan didn't exist, Nora Ephron would have to invent her. In essays that disarm and delight, Kogan's take on contemporary living is as irrepressibly savvy as a Prada diaper bag, as reassuringly satisfying as a PB-and-J sandwich."--Booklist

From the Back Cover:

Lisa Kogan is a forty-nine-year-old single mother who maintains that every human being deserves a great mattress, a comfortable pair of shoes, and a very smart shrink, and that no one has grown a decent tomato since 1963. She used to think the world wasn't all that complicated, but along came AIDS and crystal meth and the tankini, and she had to think again. Still, she's nostalgic for that time when you were forced to walk all the way across the room to change channels and there was no such thing as a spy satellite capable of spotting the precancerous mole on her left thigh.

Filled with self-deprecating humor and a deep appreciation for what really matters, Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a book for anyone who has ever been unnerved by pleather pants, lunch meat, or ambivalent men (not necessarily in that order), and believes that life is a fragile bit of luck in a world based on chance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0061735035
• ISBN 13: 9780061735035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208