I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore [Paperback]

Cathy Guisewite (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1998

Features the continuing adventures of the plucky career woman as she struggles with the everyday trials of being young and single in the 1990s.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836268210
• ISBN-13: 978-0836268218
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cathy Guisewite launched Cathy in newspapers in 1976, becoming one of the few female cartoonists to hit the daily strip Big Time. Cathy Guisewite's many awards include a 1993 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for her CBS Cathy special.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cathy at her best..., December 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore (Paperback)

This is such a funny book for anyone, but especially women. We can all relate to Cathy's experiences with men, dieting, and shopping. Kept me laughing the whole way through.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars viva la cathy!, March 26, 2000

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Carol Joseph (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore (Paperback)

This collection definitely matches up to all the others, and has some new twists as well. want to hear about caty's experiences as the new owner of a computer? read this one!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hip and relevant tribute to the fin de siecle everyperson., January 6, 2005

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Gen Falel "Gen" (Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore (Paperback)

Guisewite's frequent literary borrowing from ('tribute to', if you prefer) Dostoyevsky's more despair-ridden and fatalistic moments takes a turn for the even more existential in this post-gen-X work of ironic masterpiece. This work's main character, "Cathy" (a morose and sickly everywoman plagued with every social and psychological annoyance common to her stereo-archetype) while eternally and unwillingly aware of the meaningless futility that her incessantly short-lived strivings towards the dizzying heights of mediocrity embody, nevertheless continues to show us everything we loved so much when we first encountered it in Camus' loveable Meursault.

The necessary query that the author of this work is carefully posing, namely whether her daily choice to awaken, eat, breathe, bathe, and interact with other humans despite the obvious preferability of staying within her place of abode and not inflicting the pain and irritation upon herself and others that is concomitant with all her malaised and ineffectual flailings is one she should continue to make, is one that the protagonist of this work seems inclined to blind herself to in the sure knowledge that any awareness of the dichotomy on her part would lead to her inevitable decision to end the charade.

The lessons we can bring from the heroine's everyday dilemmas--each echoing the elegant sardonicism of Dorothy Parker's darkest works with a carefully calculated ratio of humor included--lead this reviewer, at least, to hope that "Cathy" chooses to prolong the situation indefinitely.