Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl - Hardcover

Tyler, Aisha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525948066 ISBN 13: 9780525948063

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 2004

Synopsis

Integrating words of wisdom with humorous commentary, an entertaining guidebook by the popular actress and comedienne offers thought-provoking and empowering advice on sex, dating, style, and confidence to help women live their lives to the fullest. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Aisha Tyler was the first female host of the E! network’s Emmy Award–winning Talk Soup. The Ivy League graduate turned actress and comedienne has made dozens of other television appearances, including multiple visits to The Tonight Show, the Today show, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and Politically Incorrect. As an actress, she has appeared on television’s Friends, CSI Miami, and HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as in several films. Aisha is a recipient of an NAACP Image Award and a Young Hollywood Award.

From Publishers Weekly:

Like an older sister who has life all figured out delivering a motivational speech, 33-year-old actress and comedian Tyler digresses, in a stand-up comedy approach, on popular culture, guys, personal hygiene, Sun Tzu's The Art of War (as a metaphor for dating) and how to be yourself in today's media-inflated world. Tyler, the first woman and first African-American to host E! Entertainment's Talk Soup, is clever (although she fervently denies it), confident and very modern. Unabashedly honest and optimistic, she reveals what makes her tick, dishing on how to live by mottoes such as "You are entitled to be a badass." Tyler is so hip, however, that conventional writing structures don't exactly apply to her book. Countless meditative, incomplete sentences, words such as "fergawdsakes," italics, witty footnotes and parenthetical commentaries on her own observations are all quite "postmodern," but do nothing to discredit negative 20- and 30-something stereotypes. Although the author possesses a degree in government from Dartmouth College, her writing comes right out of her mouth, clearly targeted toward the everygirl. But she produces an entertaining light read, attuned to what she presumes her readers want to talk about, down to the gritty topics of sex, dirty jokes, bikini waxing and boys. Of body image, the six-foot-tall beauty says, "Looking at celebrities as role models... is a big fat waste of time," and reminds women that "Guys. Like. Curves," acknowledging that she appeared in the Maxim Hot 100 in her underwear.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0525948066
• ISBN 13: 9780525948063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240