The Resource Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir, Roz Chast
Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir, Roz Chast
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The item Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir, Roz Chast represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fulton County Public Library.
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- Summary
- In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Note
- Subtitle from cover
- Contents
-
- The beginning of the end
- Return to the fold
- The elder lawyer
- Galapagos
- The fall
- Maimonides
- Sundowning
- The end of an era
- The move
- The old apartment
- The place
- The next step
- Kleenex abounding
- Postmortem
- Elizabeth, alone
- Bedtime stories
- Chrysalis
- The end
- Isbn
- 9781608198061
- Label
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir
- Title
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Roz Chast
- Title variation
- Cannot we talk about something more pleasant?
- Subject
-
- Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueAutobiographical comics
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography | Comic books, strips, etc
- trueChast, Roz
- Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueChildren of aging parents
- Comics (Graphic works)
- trueComics and Graphic novels
- trueFamily and Relationships -- Aging and Death
- Graphic novels
- trueLife change events
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Coping with death
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Dealing with death
- trueParent and adult child
- trueSeniors
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- trueCartoonists
- Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueAging
- trueAging parents
- Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents
- Summary
- Celebrates the final years of the author's aging parents' lives through cartoons, family photos, and documents that reflect the author's struggles with caregiver challenges
- Award
-
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, 2014.
- Library Journal Best Books 2014
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2014.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2014
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10290179
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chast, Roz,
- Dewey number
-
- 741.5/6973092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- NC1429.C525
- LC item number
- A2 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Chast, Roz
- Adult children of aging parents
- Aging parents
- Aging parents
- Cartoonists
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir, Roz Chast
- Note
- Subtitle from cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- The elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- The fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- The end of an era -- The move -- The old apartment -- The place -- The next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- The end
- Control code
- 20174974
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608198061
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn860395376
- Label
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir, Roz Chast
- Note
- Subtitle from cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- The elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- The fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- The end of an era -- The move -- The old apartment -- The place -- The next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- The end
- Control code
- 20174974
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608198061
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn860395376
Subject
- Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueAutobiographical comics
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography | Comic books, strips, etc
- trueChast, Roz
- Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueChildren of aging parents
- Comics (Graphic works)
- trueComics and Graphic novels
- trueFamily and Relationships -- Aging and Death
- Graphic novels
- trueLife change events
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Coping with death
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Dealing with death
- trueParent and adult child
- trueSeniors
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- trueCartoonists
- Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueAging
- trueAging parents
- Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Genre
- trueLife stories
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- trueGraphic novels
- trueFamily and Relationships
- trueComics and Graphic novels
- Comics (Graphic works)
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueComic books, strips, etc
- trueAutobiographical comics
- trueBiography
Included in
- trueKirkus Prizes: Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2014
- trueNational Book Critics Circle Award: Autobiography
- trueLibrary Journal Best Graphic Novels
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