Marrying Mom
Published on 1. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-00-649988-6 (ISBN)
Description
A wickedly funny comedy of New York life and love, from the bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Bestseller.
She's the despair of her family, she tries to run their lives, and she just won't act her age. In fact there's only one way to get Mom out of her children's hair...
When Phyllis Geronomous decides that retirement in Florida is not for her and moves back to the Big Apple, her three grown-up children are horrified. Sigourney is a successful stockbroker and a control freak, Sharon has two young children and a troubled marriage, while Bruce, the baby of the family, is finally feeling comfortable about having a significant other called Todd. They just can't let crazy Phyllis ruin their lives all over again. Murder is out - purely for practical reasons. Only Sigourney has the ideal solution: they'll marry Mom off, and then she'll be someone else's problem. But where are they going to find a deaf, dumb, old, blind, and, above all, rich groom?
She's the despair of her family, she tries to run their lives, and she just won't act her age. In fact there's only one way to get Mom out of her children's hair...
When Phyllis Geronomous decides that retirement in Florida is not for her and moves back to the Big Apple, her three grown-up children are horrified. Sigourney is a successful stockbroker and a control freak, Sharon has two young children and a troubled marriage, while Bruce, the baby of the family, is finally feeling comfortable about having a significant other called Todd. They just can't let crazy Phyllis ruin their lives all over again. Murder is out - purely for practical reasons. Only Sigourney has the ideal solution: they'll marry Mom off, and then she'll be someone else's problem. But where are they going to find a deaf, dumb, old, blind, and, above all, rich groom?
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Bestseller:'Goldsmith hands out her characters'
rewards and comeuppances like Jane Austen dealing blackjack... You keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another potato chip'
Newsweek
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
238 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-649988-6 (9780006499886)
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Olivia Goldsmith, one-time computer consultant, is the author of the internationally bestselling novels, The First Wives Club, Flavour of the Month, Fashionably Late and Bestseller. She has also written, with Amy Fine Collins, Simple Isn't Easy, a practical guide to stylish dressing. A native New Yorker, Olivia Goldsmith now lives mostly in Vermont.