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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

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Manufacturer: Anchor
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It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400079094
ISBN: 1400079098
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2005-03-08
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: 2005-03-08
Studio: Anchor


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Funny and Warm
Comment: Beautiful book that pulls no punches when discussing the first year of an infants life. The stress, the heartache, the joys and the love are all pulled together here in a book that will make you laugh and cry and love the author and her son.

Customer Rating:
Summary: She's usually better than this
Comment: Anne Lamott is a terrific writer, generally, but this book I could barely get through. I'm plenty liberal, so it wasn't Lamott's politics that bothered me, it was her extreme neurosis and narsicissm here that wore me down.

I mean, I've got two kids, and I remember being pregnant with my first one. Of course I was scared and of course there's so much you don't know, but holy cow, this woman came across as frighteningly neurotic. I finished the book feeling sorry for her son, having a mother so riddled with over-the-top fears that she would be communicating to him. Yikes! I didn't feel very much sympathy for her here. Mostly, I wanted to shake her and tell her to get a freaking grip -- if not for her sake, than for her kid's.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Made me feel like a friend
Comment: Anne Lamott's writing is so personal, it makes me feel like we're friends, chatting. She's brave enough to share her true feelings about being a first time mother, and that made me so much more comfortable with my own feelings.

All I know is that she's going to cost me a lot more money, because I will have to buy the rest of her books now! I'll probably also give this one as a gift to my friends.

Customer Rating:
Summary: operating instructions
Comment: I have always liked anne lamont, and have read most of her stuff. I love the way she writes so honestly and openly. However, this book is probably my favorite of hers. I just finished and couldnt put it down. I think it would be a great read for a first time pregnant mom. I laughed out loud during parts because having a young son myself, her take on some things rang really true to me. Of course in her typical honest raw form....The fun and challenging parts of the first year are revealed. For sure, she had challenges...(especially being a single mom)

Customer Rating:
Summary: Didn't live up to my expectations
Comment: I was not so impressed by this "must-read" journal of Lamott's trials and tribulations as she deals with her newborn. Maybe when it was published, it was taboo for a mother to casually remark that she'd like to throw her colicky baby out the window or confess that she let her infant fall off the futon (twice!), but in this age of mom-blogging, such confessions are almost trite. The journal reads exactly like a, well, journal, not my favorite type of reading material (I don't even like to read my own journals). I guess my expectations were a little higher.

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