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You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

by Dave Barry

Humorous essays on family life and modern-day absurdities

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    Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist

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Humorous essays on family life and modern-day absurdities

Dave Barry gathers previously unpublished comic essays built around deliberately unqualified advice and observations on contemporary life. Parenting a daughter supplies one thread, while the collection ranges through wilderness survival, dating, conversation, travel security, the postal service, celebrity, cremation, international conflict, and the business of writing. The organizing idea is not expertise but the comic gap between everyday problems and the confident guidance offered for them. With subjects that move from domestic life to public institutions and cultural touchstones, the book takes the form of a wide-ranging humor collection rather than a practical parenting manual.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of humorous personal essays
  • Adults interested in comic takes on parenting and everyday life
  • Readers who enjoy satirical observations on contemporary culture

Themes

ParentingEveryday absurdityUnsolicited adviceModern cultureMarriage and family

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Book overview

If there's one thing that New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry is an expert on, it's raising a daughter.

...which means he's not an expert on much considering the breadth of his knowledge on that subject fills only a single chapter of a book. However, what Dave Barry is good at is giving unsolicited advice on topics he's definitively not an expert on. In fact, he now has an entire book filled with guidance on things he knows nothing about, including: surviving in the wild, wooing women, cremation, maintaining a scintillating conversation, Justin Bieber, the U.S. Postal Service, enduring the TSA, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, most obviously, being a professional author.

With trademark wit and unmatched insight into the insanity of everyday life, Dave Barry presents a series of hilarious, never-before-published essays on the trials and tribulations of living and laughing in the modern age.
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