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001 2015304302
003 DLC
005 20150822101910.0
008 150430s2014 nyuac 6 000 0deng d
010 $a 2015304302
020 $a9781608198061
020 $a1608198065
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn860395376
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050 00 $aNC1429.C525$bA2 2014
082 04 $a741.5/6973092$aB$223
100 1 $aChast, Roz,$eauthor,$eartist.
245 10 $aCan't we talk about something more pleasant? :$ba memoir /$cRoz Chast.
250 $aFirst United States edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c[2014]
300 $a228 pages :$billustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aSubtitle from cover.
520 $aIn her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the "crazy closet" -- with predictable results -- the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies -- an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades -- the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- Elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- Fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- End of an era -- Move -- Old apartment -- Place -- Next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- End -- Epilogue.
600 10 $aChast, Roz$xFamily$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aCartoonists$zUnited States$vBiography$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAdult children of aging parents$xFamily relationships$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAging parents$xFamily relationships$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAdult children of aging parents$vBiography.
650 0 $aCaregivers$vBiography.
650 0 $aDementia$xPatients$xFamily relationships$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAging parents$xCare$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
655 0 $aGraphic novels.
655 0 $aGraphic novels$zUnited States.
655 0 $aWit and humor, Pictorial.
655 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.
650 2 $aAged$vComic books, strips, etc.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-d.html