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W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999/08/01 00:00:00.000. Trade Paperback . Good. Hall,James W. Tropical Freeze Edge and corner wear. Creases to cover. Pages still clean and tight. All U.S. orders shipped with tracking number and e-mail confirmation. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers., W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999/08/01 00:00:00.000, 2.5, Picture Window Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Picture Window Books, 6, "The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already funny, and George Hodgman reaps that humor with great charm. But then he plunges deep, examining the warm yet fraught relationship between mother and son with profound insight and understanding." Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWhen George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himselfan unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cookin a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasurethe place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict: Betty, who speaks her mind but cannot quite reveal her heart, has never really accepted the fact that her son is gay.As these two unforgettable characters try to bring their different worlds together, Hodgman reveals the challenges of Betty's life and his own struggle for self-respect, moving readers from their small towncrumbling but still colorfulto the star-studded corridors of Vanity Fair. Evocative of The End of Your Life Book Club and The Tender Bar, Hodgman's New York Times bestselling debut is both an indelible portrait of a family and an exquisitely told tale of a prodigal son's return."A remarkable, laugh-out-loud book . . . Rarely has the subject of elder care produced such droll human comedy, or a heroine quite on the mettlesome order of Betty Baker Hodgman. For as much as the book works on several levels (as a meditation on belonging, as a story of growing up gay and the psychic cost of silence, as metaphor for recovery), it is the strong-willed Betty who shines through." The New York Times, Penguin Books, 2016-02, 6, HarperCollins. New. Special order direct from the distributor, HarperCollins, 6, Candlewick. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Candlewick, 6, Scholastic Inc. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Scholastic Inc, 6, Scholastic Paperbacks. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Scholastic Paperbacks, 6, G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 2017. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Ex Library with usual stamps and markings. Light edgewear to dust jacket, binding sound and pages unmarked. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 3, Prentice Hall, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. reprint. shelf wear on the boards. ownership inscription, with a few minor annotations in text. soundly bound. heavy, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Prentice Hall, 1979, 3, Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), 12/01/1998. 1. Hardcover. Used; Good. Ex Library Copy **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! 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But is a reality TV program really a good idea? Will it save her career or be the final blow? And just how tempting are two weeks in a freezing cabin in Norway, with a group of people no one`s quite heard of? Very tempting - when the pay check is that big.So Katie takes the risk - along with a page 3 model, an out-of-work soap actor, an old, failed comedian and some woman who had an affair with a politician. She`s soon out of her depth, as scheming producers do everything in their power to get the show they want - it`s going to take all Katie`s good humour and bad puns to bounce back from this one., Fourth Estate Limited, 2009, 3<