Research Catalog

Title

Too much of a good thing is wonderful / Regina Barreca.

Author

Barreca, Regina.

Publication

Storrs, CT : Bibliopola Press ; Hanover, NH : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 2000.

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Details

Description

491 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Barreca, Regina
• Humorous stories, American > Women authors
• American wit and humor > Women authors

Contents

• Family. My Italian Aunts Taught Me to Dance. The Other Half. In All Honesty. Dialogue. One Being A Stepmother. Saying "Uncle" Dreams of My Mother. Found and Lost. Radio Voices. Mea Culpa, Mom. A Love Story. My Brother. Big Days. Eat Before You Go. My Grandmother, A Chicken, and Death -- Friends. Other People's Moms. All-Time Friends. How Old Are You, Really? Do You Like What You Like? Who Wants to Date Norman Bates? It's a Girl -- Desire. I Always Feel Rich When I ... Quest for the Lost Book of Childhood. Writing. To the North. Envy. Lust. In My Next Life I (In No Particular Hierarchical Order) Will. Out Of Focus. Vice. Greed. Pride. Sloth -- Romance. Anatomy of an Affair. Post Valentine's Day Review. Knock on Wood. Division. After The Fall. It's My Party ... Romance on the Rocks. The "C" Word: "Commitment" -- Eduction. My C Minus. In Love With Libraries. School Work. Money and Luke. A Dangerous Woman. Lessons from School. Excess Baggage.
• What's A Nice Girl Like You Doing In a Place Like This? Leaving Hanover -- Culture. Confessions of A Recovering Catholic. Over Bored. It Even Smells Big. Just Don't Do It. No More Dead Heroines. Les Temps Perdue ... Or, Confessions of a One-Chicken Woman. Family-Style Dining. Days of Whine and Roses. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Medea? Fear and Feminism. Confessions. Have Yourself a Postmodern Little Christmas. Just Like Home. Synopses. Faking It. Gender Quiz. See America? Happiness. What Makes You Mad? -- Growing Up. Childhood is Not Kid Stuff. The Passive Voice. Child's Play. Highway 40 (Revisited). Stuff I Didn't Think Would Still Bother Me At My Age (But Does). Reading Secrets. The Big, Really Big Book of Memories. Ask Me How Old I Am -- Body. A Womb With A View. Shades of Grey. Picture This. Will My Seat Become a Flotation Device? Skin Deep. Coloring Inside the Lines -- Domesticity. House Porn. Arguing About Money. Coming Clean.
• How to Argue Bitterly Even When Nothing Is Wrong. Snore Queen. Lassie Stays Home. The Woman Who Keeps Our Marriage Together. Scratch and Sniff. Picture This -- Anxiety. The Holiday Impaired. Guilt-Edged. Miss(ing) Manners. Sleepless in Storrs. Dial "N" for "Nervous" The Next Bus Home. What You Fear = Who You Are. Stop Trying to Tie the Perfect Bow.

ISBN

0939883066

OCLC

• ocm44497899
• SCSB-3869700

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries