![The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After [Paperback] Gideon, Melanie](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/867/454/9780307454867.RH.0.m.jpg)
![The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After [Paperback] Gideon,](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/867/454/9780307454867.RH.0.l.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.
The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After [Paperback] Gideon, Melanie
by Gideon, Melanie
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 030745486X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307454867
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Anchor, 2010-08-10. Paperback. Like New. 2009, stated First Edition, Advance Readers Copy. Like new condition.
Synopsis
"We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy enough?"For anybody who has ever wondered privately Is this all there is, Melanie Gideon's poignant, hilarious, exuberant meditation, The Slippery Year, chronicles a year in which she confronts both the fantasies of her receding youth and the realities of midlife with a husband, a child, and a dog (one of whom runs away). She reflects on the exigencies of domesticity--the need for a household catastrophe plan, the fainting spell occasioned by the departure of her nine-year-old son for camp, the mattress wars, and the carpool line. With tenderness, unsparing honesty, and uproarious wit, Gideon brings us back again and again to the sweetness of ordinary pleasures and to life's most enduring satisfactions. She captures perfectly that moment right before everything changes and the things we have loved forever begin to fall away for the first time.The Slippery Year is the story of a woman's quest to reignite passion, beauty, and mystery and discover if "happily ever after" is a possibility after all.From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- GridFreed LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10-11832
- Title
- The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After [Paperback] Gideon, Melanie
- Author
- Gideon, Melanie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 030745486X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307454867
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Date Published
- 2010-08-10
Terms of Sale
GridFreed LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
GridFreed LLC
Biblio member since 2021
San Diego, California
About GridFreed LLC
We sell primarily non-fiction, many new books, some collectible first editions and signed books. We operate 100% online and have been in business since 2005.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Frequently asked questions
Collecting Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards
Exchanging Valentines can be an awkward process, especially when you consider “Vinegar Valentines” and other snarky sentiments - whatever your tastes, enjoy the sweet and sour cards alike in this gallery!
Signed vs. Inscribed
Know what you are getting into when purchasing rare books, and learn the difference between signed books and inscribed books.
