Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-Three Reasons Why Life Isn's As Good As It Used to Be - Softcover

Holland, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015601176X ISBN 13: 9780156011761

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2000

Synopsis

Liquor cabinets and pianos have vanished from homes. It's been over fifty years since the last worthwhile war. Doctors never visit and no one hangs their clothes out to dry anymore. In Wasn't the Grass Greener?, Barbara Holland shares her sentiments on these deplorable results of "progress," where entertainment has come to replace idleness and children are skipping childhood. Written with impeccable style and a sharp wit, Holland's all-original essays are laugh-out-loud funny, whether or not you're old enough to remember clotheslines. Not quite a peaceful stroll down memory lane, Wasn't the Grass Greener? is a straight-up collection of a curmudgeon's complaints with a shot of nostalgia on the side.

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Review:

"We sometimes hear it said of an iconoclastic essayist like Mark Twain or Russell Baker that he is a 'national treasure.' I vote to include Barbara Holland in this treasure chest."-The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Though Holland obviously means what she writes, she also is having good fun, not merely mourning and celebrating what has been lost but also taking well-aimed whacks at inviting targets."-The Washington Post

From the Author:

Enhance your life!
Purchase this delightful work and your life shall be forever enriched.You will laugh; you will weep; you may even win the lottery. Having gazed on its gems of wisdom, lighthearted but profound, you will find your every day aglow with insights new and memories long silent beneath the faceless, soulless fabric of our times. Many thoughtful persons buy whole cartons of this book as all-purpose gifts and thus avoid Christmas shopping and enrich the lives of their grateful friends and relations, not to mention the life of the grateful author, who secretly rejoices in a buck or two, however she claims to scorn the affluent life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 015601176X
• ISBN 13: 9780156011761
• Binding: Paperback