The Best of Bombeck by Erma Bombeck
A farcical sendup of Donald Trump's rise to power and volatile partnership with Vladimir Putin.As a young boy, Donald Rump was less than precocious--a miserable student, prone to implacable tantrums, whose emotional intelligence ceased maturing at the age of 9. But the region of the brain responsible for egomaniacal self-assessment was prodigiously large.
After some success and plenty more failure in real estate, he turns his attentions to reality TV and hosts a show called Paycheck, each episode of which concludes with Rump singing Don't Cry for Me Argentina.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Poutine was raised by KGB agents during the early years of Khrushchev's reign. Poutine, a latent homosexual who immerses himself in the self-consciously manly world of physical culture, reads magazines about bodybuilding. Crushed by the demise of the Soviet Union, he copes in the most peculiar way: he would slip into a silver lam gown, pop on a curly wig and perform Marlene Dietrich classics at a local drag bar.
Rump decides he'd like to try his hand at politics and recruits shock jock Alex Clamz from the popular but frothing radio show, Disinfowarz. He runs for president opposite Mallory Claxton, a sensible woman with a sterling career in public service. Despite a bizarre campaign and a trail of seedy scandals, Rump wins with clandestine help from Poutine.
And then, the fun really begins.
Bombeck had been ill for some time. In 1992, after she underwent a mastectomy, her kidneys failed and she began dialysis at her home in Arizona. She suffered from polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary complaint. Even with her illness, Bombeck continued her weekly schedule of housework, her source for the hilarious columns and books for which she was widely loved.
My type of humor is almost pure identification, she once told The New York Times. A housewife reads my columns and says, 'But that's happened to me! I know just what she's talking about!'
If I didn't do my own housework, then I have no business writing about it. I spend 90 percent of my time living scripts and 10 percent writing them.
Erma Bombeck's books include Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession, which spent an entire year in the Number One spot on The New York Times bestseller list; Family: The Ties That Bind...and Gag!; If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?; I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise; When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, which was a New York Times bestseller and the sixth biggest selling nonfiction book of 1991; and A Marriage Made in Heaven...Or Too Tired for an Affair.
There are over twenty million copies of Erma shelved, and her thrice-weekly syndicated columns reached an estimated thirty million readers every week.
Bombeck was a regular on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for eleven years. She holds fifteen honorary doctorates, has been named to the list of the 25 Most Influential Women in America by the World Almanac since 1979, and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the President's Advisory Committee for Women when it was formed in 1978.
She is survived by her husband, William Bombeck, her mother, Erma Harris, and her three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780883657218 |
| ISBN 10 | 088365721X |
| Title | The Best of Bombeck |
| Author | Erma Bombeck |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Galahad Books |
| Year published | 2001-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 540 |
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