When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman by Liza Donnelly
Lines explores the hysterical evolution of women through the decades-from awkward teen years to Quarter-lifers in crisis to the unmistakable realization that if you're wearing a certain outfit in your 40s, you might be a cougar. With her trademark wry, self-deprecating wit and eye-catching cartoons, Donnelly celebrates the fact that laugh lines do come with age-but so does wisdom. SALES HANDLE Laugh Lines explores the hysterical evolution of women through the decades-from awkward teen years to Quarter-lifers in crisis to the unmistakable realization that if you're wearing a certain outfit in your 40s, you might be a cougar. GORGEOUS, GIFTY PACKAGE Packaged to achieve a lovely, tactile feel-with a beautifully designed interior and jacket-Laugh Lines offers a truly distinctive take on the subject. Donnelly's art is eye-catching and deceptively simple: she captures the sly glance or look of terror with deft strokes, often catching your funny bone by surprise. PERENNIAL TOPIC As proven by Nora Ephron's bestselling I Feel Bad About My Neck, women are clamoring for a poignant, yet humorous take on aging. Laugh Lines delivers this in spades-in a unique, retrospective package. From bad haircuts to bitchy bosses to boring dates, Laugh Lines explores every nook and cranny of modern life-making this the perfect book for both moms and daughters to share and enjoy. It's aging lite-but that might be just the solution to feeling good about yourself. NOTABLE AUTHOR Liza Donnelly is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker-where her cartoons have appeared regularly since 1982, at which time she was the youngest and one of only three women cartoonists at the magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmopolitan, among others. She is the author of Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love in 200 Cartoons, and the co-author (with her husband) of Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony with the New Yorker's Cartooning Couple.