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Small comforts : more comments and comic pieces / Tom Bodett.
LIBRA AC8 .B563 1987
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodett, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Alaska--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 165 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1987]
- Summary:
- Alaska's main comic export is that rarest of commodities--an original new voice in American humor. In this, his second collection of casual essays, he muses on the everyday joys and embarrassments of being a husband, father, citizen, and breadwinner.
- Contents:
- Taking pot luck: Mood piece
- Mechanical inclinations
- Wood: You can count on it
- Old friend guilt
- Ditch diving
- Sixty-four-dollar-questions
- Bad signs
- Command performance
- See and be seen
- Taking potluck
- Off the top of my head
- Shake what thing?
- Pet peeves
- Wait divisions
- Cleanliness vs godliness
- Strangers in my chairs
- Symptoms of fatherhood
- Dadiholics anonymous
- Housebuilders guide to homemaking
- Dish demeanor
- Small comforts: Small comfort
- Gross estimates
- Senior boom
- Mental safety
- I aim to please
- Miss America
- Lost mail
- Chain reactions
- Burger blues
- Year of peace
- Hard comparisons
- Not letting go: Eulogy for an ancient Eskimo
- Ohlsen mountain
- State of spring
- Back to school
- Last dollar
- Pretty as a picture
- Working slobs
- Orphans
- Wow
- Father's Day
- Not letting go.
- ISBN:
- 0201134179
- 9780201134179
- 0201136899
- 9780201136890
- OCLC:
- 15792012
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