We Should Be So Lucky : Love, Sex, Food, and Fun After Forty from the Diva of QVC - Hardcover

9780671008482: We Should Be So Lucky : Love, Sex, Food, and Fun After Forty from the Diva of QVC
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A humorous and anecdotal celebration of entering middle age is filled with observations from the front lines about what it is like to be a single woman in the nineties. By the author of It's Better to Laugh.

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Jane Scovell has coauthored books with Marilyn Horne, Elizabeth Taylor, Kitty Dukakis, Ginger Rogers, and Maureen Stapleton, as well as It's Better to Laugh... with Kathy Levine. She is also the author of a biography of Oona Chaplin.
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A lively, outspoken commentary on life as a middle-aged, divorced mini-celebrity who fights fat, the dearth of acceptable men, and mortality. Levine is a successful product-pusher on QVC (the network that pioneered shop-around-the-clock-from-your-couch), her viewers attracted by a straightforward approach to shopping and a ``Jewish-mamma-of-the-'90s'' presentation. The tone here is basically letters-to-my-new-best-friend, revealing all about her latest love affairs (successful and unsuccessful, serendipitous and planned, younger and older); her face-lift (yes, she had one, but it was small and unimportant, only an adjunct to a face peel, and QVC didn't order her to do it), her weight loss (with the help of the once-miraculous, now-controversial diet pill, ``fen- phen''). Now, the reader should understand that Levine doesn't really approve of anti-aging surgery or obsession with weight. But something (a wish for another decade in television?) made her do it. Levine's talent as storyteller and coauthor Scovell's skill as a writer give enough punch to the material to make the manifold ``oy vays'' and other ethnic exclamation points unnecessary. The death of Levine's ex-husband, who had remained a loving friend, gives a sober note to the otherwise energetic tale. But the last chapter, unfortunately, is a plug for QVC. The reader has to be a really big fan to have a clue about the people she lauds or to care about the dress that she wore ten years ago when she helped launch the station. It is to laugh, yes; but, oy vay, it is also to despair of women who give priority to members of the opposite sex as simply romantic objects, to perfect bodies, and to mindless, endless shopping. (b&w illustrations) (TV satellite tour) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • PublisherAtria Books
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 067100848X
  • ISBN 13 9780671008482
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages240
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