Waiting:the True Confessions Of A Waitre - Hardcover

Ginsberg, Debra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0753196727 ISBN 13: 9780753196724

Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, 2002

Synopsis

Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival - and she has the scars to prove it. In this book - part memoir, part social commentary, part guide on how to behave when dining out - Ginsberg takes readers on an intimate journey of her 20 years as a waitress at the dingiest of diners, a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, and more. While chronicling her parallel evolution as a writer and single mother, the book also takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life - revealing that, yes, when pushed, a server will spit in food, and, no, that's not really decaf you're getting - and at how most people in this business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else.

About this title

About the Author:

Debra Ginsberg is the author of Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress and Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World. A graduate of Reed College, she is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and the San Diego Union-Tribune "Books" section.

About this edition

• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0753196727
• ISBN 13: 9780753196724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440