Dancing Through Life in a Pair of Broken Heels

By Mickey Guisewite

Book Overview

Forty-one hilarious short essays, accompanied by zany cartoons, shed new light on the key mysteries of modern life: including How did the lunch hour shrink to seven minutes? and Why is it impossible... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553091905
• ISBN13: 9780553091908
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.1" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Riotous read

Cathy Guisewite once commented that she has three sisters, but did not give her alter ego siblings because they're like "three women sharing a brain." After reading this book, it's utterly undeniable.Mickey Guisewite, Cathy's sister, pens a hilarious tale of the modern woman, her career, her relationships, her home life, and why all of them are disastrous and conflicting. All in a style very reminiscent of her sister. Can you trust a girlfriend not to tell her husband about the shoulder pad that wandered down your chest? Can you angrily confront a man in the office without sniveling? Can you get a boyfriend to pick up a container of Windex? How do you choose one of the four million "white" paint chips? And what can you do when the fifteen pairs of shoes JUST DON'T MATCH the dress for the Big Meeting?The real-life relatives and significant others resemble characters in Cathy as well (one can see from where the cartoonist gets her inspiration): the obsessively thrifty, why-aren't-you-married-dear mother, the golf-obsessed boyfriend, the father who arrives at the airport six hours early, the married friends who whip out ten thousand ugly baby photos, the friend she eats lunch with, and so forth.Amusing anecdotes (that probably wouldn't be allowed in a strip) include the woman who shrieked "I'M NOT WEARING UNDERWEAR!" in a crowded party, and the gal who had to call her mom for help when her merry widow got caught in her bedspread. These tales of romance, food, and humiliation will make you laugh, cry, then laugh a bit more.Micky Guisewite has a hilarious style and plenty of emotional crises to unload. Well worth the read, and the reread! (Illustrated with little one-panel cartoons by Cathy Guisewite--also hilarious! They're worth the book alone...)

Definitely a great book!

This book is so great! It's stories are clever, funny, and totally true. I've read it more times than I can remember, just because it always puts a smile on my face. Buy it. NOW.

Hysterically true!

I read this book and broke into LOUD gales of laughter on the F train. I bought 15 copies and sent them to my three sisters and all my closest female friends. They laughed harder. This is what it's like to be a single woman today. And even a not-so-single woman today.

Highly entertaining, yet true.

I gave the book to my roommate when it first came out. We were both young professionals and we could relate to the book. Although the book is a collection of anecdotals essays, I still quote them as pearls of wisdom.What a great read!