Four of a Kind: A Treasury of Favorite Works by Americas Best Loved Humorist_图书大全
Four of a Kind: A Treasury of Favorite Works by Americas Best Loved Humorist
ISBN: 9780070064560
定价: 100.00
内容简介
Between the years of 1976 and 1983, I gave birth to four healthy,
planned volumes of humor. They ranged in size from 175 to 203
pages.
The offspring were divinely conceived. My agent, Aaron Priest,
and my editor at McGraw-Hill, Gladys Carr, assisted at the
delivery.
If I speak of these volumes as "children," it is because there
are a lot of similarities. They re something you always put off until
you re sure your marriage is stable. When you discover you are
"with book," there is ecstasy at first, heightened by a lot of at-
tention and an advance check. By the third set of rewrites, when
you have seen none of your friends in months and the "baby" has
reached epic proportions, you bargain with God, "If you deliver
me a healthy book, I promise, I will clean my oven."
By the time the name is picked out, the cover approved, and
Donahue has been invited to the birth, you are ready to see what
you ve been carrying around for nine months. You gently peek
under the cover.
