Area Woman Blows Gasket: And Other Tales from the Domestic Frontier [Paperback]

Patricia Pearson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 21, 2006

In these sharp and humorous essays, columnist Patricia Pearson takes us on a hilarious tour of our twenty-first-century obsessions and distractions. Pearson plumbs every facet of modern life, marriage, and motherhood, and her wry brand of wisdom is a refreshing and long-awaited release from our confusing and often contradictory world.

Editorial Reviews

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Praise for Playing House:
“Think Bridget Jones’s Diary and Sex and the City meet Good Housekeeping and Today’s Parent. Vodka tonics meet baby bottles. Designer clothes meet grubby little hands…. Patricia Pearson made me laugh out loud.”
—Ottawa Citizen

“I felt as if I had been entertained at a dinner … where I had grabbed the arms of my dinner mates on either side, mothers all, to keep myself from falling off my chair in laughter.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Too well written to be dismissed as ‘chick lit.’”
—Times-Colonist

“A fresh and lively romp … will leave you lusting for more.”
—Toronto Sun

“Fresh, funny and sweet without being sugary.”
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About the Author

Patricia Pearson is a frequent contributor to USA Today and the author of the novel Playing House. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Observer, the Guardian, and Redbook, among other publications, and she won the Arthur Ellis Award in 1997 for best nonfiction crime book, When She Was Bad. She recently moved from Toronto to the boreal forest outside Montreal with her husband and two children.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (March 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159691033X
• ISBN-13: 978-1596910331
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,186,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a riot!, August 14, 2006

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Peony (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Area Woman Blows Gasket: And Other Tales from the Domestic Frontier (Paperback)

This book of essays is one of the most entertaining musings on family life (with several great side trips -- such as a hilarious piece on quitting smoking) that I've ever read. Several of the essays were so funny, that I was crying while laughing. I had to read several of them aloud to my husband because he felt so left out of the jokes.

High marks to this absolutely hysterical collection of tales from the domestic frontier!

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, September 1, 2010

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This review is from: Area Woman Blows Gasket: And Other Tales from the Domestic Frontier (Paperback)

At the risk of being crude, I laughed my ass off while reading this book. It is a series of articles, often no more than 2 or 3 pages in length, about various random topics that crossed Patricia Pearson's mind. No one thinks quite the way she does about these things. Every thought leads into various other thoughts, all slightly odd and all hilariously funny. I've already read it, but I'm reading it again. Too funny!