Aunt Erma's Cope Book [Mass Market Paperback]

Erma Bombeck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 12, 1985

"Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck."
DALLAS TIMES HERALD
In this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:
No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test. Our Erma is on her way to becoming a sub-total woman.

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"Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck."
DALLAS TIMES HERALD
In this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:
No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test. Our Erma is on her way to becoming a sub-total woman.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (July 12, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449209377
• ISBN-13: 978-0449209370
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.6 x 6.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,096 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > Essays
  • #81 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > General

More About the Author

Beloved for her wry yet warm look at family life, Erma Bombeck was America's favorite humorist at the time of her death in 1996. Ten of her 13 books, including Forever, Erma, appeared on the New York Times best-seller list. She claimed her first fiction writing was the weather forecast in the Dayton Herald. Her favorite food was pasta, and her hobby was dust.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Need a self-help book? Here's one with humor!, March 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Aunt Erma's Cope Book (Mass Market Paperback)

Erma Bombeck is on a quest to perfect herself in this book. As she searches for the greatsest self-help book she can find, she searches to become more sexy, smarter, thinner, and all together more perfect. I don't know if she reaches her goal, but she does decide to like herself anyway! This book is hilarious! "I don't want to participate in any sport that has an ambulance at the bottom of the hill". Enjoy this wonderful, humorous book . . . and take a second look on what it means to be happy!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Self-help book of a self-help book addict, August 16, 2000

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E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aunt Erma's Cope Book (Mass Market Paperback)

Erma Bombeck chronicles a year in the 80s when she devoted her time and energy to self-help books, like the "Total Woman."

A reader both feels sympathy for Erma's somewhat bumbling attempts to become what these books demand of her, and for her harried husband, who must have woken up every morning to wonder who his wife is today. She is pressed by an apparently lunatic friend to read "The Sub-Total Woman", attempting to act sexy and wifely to save her marriage, but only ends up weirding out her husband and burning up her nightgown.

Other chapters involve Transcendental Meditation, thrift, the guests from hell, astrology guilt, other people's middle-aged pregnancies, jogging, and the ultimate frontier: satisfaction. You'll want to jeer at the bizarre ladies at the end of this, but you definitely won't regret buying it.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Erma presents a soul makeover, May 31, 2006

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S. Lloyd "author, 'Please Don't Drink the Hol... (Whitehall, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aunt Erma's Cope Book (Mass Market Paperback)

This is my favorite from the queen of family humor. Here's what hilarity happens when the ordinary human tries on psychology fads as if they were dresses on a bargain rack.