![]() ![]() Really entertaining and comparable to Shirley Jackson's Life Among The Savages and other family familiars. And there's always Christmas to help this along. ![]() Times Magazine, indicate the wide audience that knows her name - and that should want to buy her book. Kerr's appearances in varying magazines, from Harper's Bazaar, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, SEP, to Harper's and the N.Y. A playwright, the wife of the Herald Tribune's drama critic, and recently a columnist, Mrs. Each short piece, from the introduction to the index, is loaded with laugh-out-loud-remarks, situations and ideas. White- leve majesti indeed) who move to the country - these are gifted and good. Funny and refreshing, her maternal moments will find a sympathetic hysteria among others bedeviled by strident striplings and a perfect antidote toward accepted currently child raising programs: her take-offs, of Sagan, in Don Brown's Body, and her incisive words on writers (like E.B. Kerr on a pique (more than one, and with her home in Connecticut, almost in Darien) pursuing her lonely way as a parent, parodist, and a woman sore beset by modern living. Please Dont Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising. ![]()
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