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Buy this book on-line MATHER**, VICTORIA & MACARTNEY-SNAPE**, SUE: : The Mid-Life Crisis.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.JOHN MURRAY,2005. ISBN 0719568218.
UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,blue ink signature - without dedication - to half-title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with green+black letters,by Sue Macartney-Snape; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean, unblemished, publisher's original,plain green cloth boards with crisp,bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a green+white striped headband and immaculate plain green endpapers. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,96pp [paginated] includes half-title,colour vignetted title page, colour pictorial cartoon (the Brat) illustrated frntis, foreword by Graydon Carter, acknowledgements,45 colour stereotype caricatures+text for each.
Serendipity is horribly aware that she's entering the environs of the elasticated waistband.And these days it seems to be the arrival of her rose and bulb catalogues that inspire a thrill of near- erotic pleasure.As for her husband Stanton,at the first signs of receding hair he compensated by buying a new Harley-Davidson complete with helmet.But, much like Stan's hairline,their blithe mantra that there's no such thing as middle age might just be beginning to wear a little thin.
Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape are back with another achingly funny cocktail of Social Strerotypes.There is the ever-enthusiastic Antonia who works for Dimwit PR, speaks in exclamation marks and is just too,too blonde; Rachel,the new Tory,who puts other mums to shame with her 'I-got-a-first-and-I-also-have-a-cleavage' self-assurance; and the competitive grannies who fight tooth-and-nail for sole influence over their darling grandson, Joshua.
From The Long Lunchers to The Over- Attentive Shop Assistant,every foible is delicately detailed and every character strikes a chord.
You'll no doubt have already run across a couple of them today.
After 12 years and 600 Social Stereotypes
[the first was commissioned by Max Hastings and written on the back of an envelope in a cafe at the Cannes Film Festival] Mathers and Macartney-Snape are still going.The combination of Sue Macartney-Snape's frighteningly astute drawings and Victoria Mather's scintillating texts confirm them as the sharpest,funniest and most entertaining social observers of our time.
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