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Everybody into the Pool: True Tales

by Beth Lisick

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Publisher Comments:

Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, Everybody into the Pool.

Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord.

Synopsis:

Lisick's memoir takes a sidesplittingly hilarious look back at her journey from suburban goody two shoes to San Francisco "Alterna-mom."

Product Details

ISBN:
9780060834265
Subtitle:
True Tales
Author:
Lisick, Beth
Author:
by Beth Lisick
Publisher:
ReganBooks
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Women
Subject:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject:
Popular Culture - Counter Culture
Subject:
Authors, American
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
July 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
227
Dimensions:
7.96x6.06x.64 in. .66 lbs.

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