Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

Lamott, Anne; with Sam Lamott

ISBN 10: 159448841X ISBN 13: 9781594488412

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2012

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Lamott writes on the unexpected parenthood of her 19-year-old son, himself the subject of her earlier book Operating Instructions; he writes on the transition from son to father; and both on their changing realtions with the child's mother. SIGNED by Anne Lamott on the title page. First edition (first printing) with full number string. Light wear to book, jacket shows minor rubbing. Text clean, no names, no marks. Size: Octavo.

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Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

Publisher

Riverhead Books, New York

Publication Date

2012

ISBN 10

159448841X

ISBN 13

9781594488412

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition.

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Very Good

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Very Good

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Signed by Author

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

"If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.''Time

In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam'about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions'struggle to balance their changing roles. By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family'as this book will change everyone who reads it.

About the Author

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

Sam Lamott is an inventor, designer, entrepreneur, and artist who lives in San Francisco.

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