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Babyhood
| Author: | Paul Reiser |
| ISBN: | 0688149790 |
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Publishers List Price: 22.00
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Product Description
Paul Reiser is the star, co-creator, and executive producer of the critically acclaimed NBC series "Mad About You." Paul gives a humorous account of becoming a father and at the same time relates his experience to many other events and societal observations.
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Fans of television's Mad About You and its star, Paul Reiser, will be delighted with his second foray into the self-deprecating self-help genre. Couplehood, his first book, leads logically to this next phase--Babyhood. In a chatty voice Reiser takes us from the "Maybe someday we'll have kids" step into the deep-sea dive of commitment. Babyhood begins on an airplane, with Paul and wife blissfully unencumbered by children. They are seated across from the young parents (graying before his eyes) of a terrorizing 2-year-old and a screeching infant. This sobering reality manages magically to pale in a transcendent moment of the baby's bliss, uncomplicated by drool or colic, and the two decide: "Now." Well, more or less now. First they try to get pregnant, making expeditions to the bookstore to case out the shelves of baby books; then there are the bouncy reflections on who is, after all, cut out to parent ("I don't know if, for example, Mozart actually had kids, but certainly there is no record of him ever leaving the office early to coach Peewee Soccer League"). Later comes the account of sibling rivalry between the newborn and the family dog, and why women make better moms than men. Babyhood manages to provoke thought about the important questions of when and why to have children, many of which are answered in the book's endearing details.
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Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good Price: 1.99 Notes: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. |
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