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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- Author
- Jean Kerr
- Narrator
- Marni Webb
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 1998
- Run Time
- 2 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the twenty-first century.
Critics Review
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“This timeless audiobook, originally published in 1957, sounds as fresh as a daisy…These tapes sound like two hours of stand-up comedy. Webb delivers it in a deadpan manner with appropriate pauses for laughter. Her tone conveys the frustration and hilarity of being a young mother trying to survive in a rough environment.”
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“These 1957 vignettes into the Kerr household, read here with ease by Marni Webb, suggest that without a heavy dose of humor, any Mom is liable to end up on a psychiatrist’s couch at $25 an hour.”
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Details
- Author
- Jean Kerr
- Narrator
- Marni Webb
- Duration
- 2 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 1998
- ISBN
- 9781572705845
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Literary essays
Synopsis
This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the twenty-first century.
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