Fans of stand-up comedienne Rudner will be happy indeed to see this book hit the shelves. Its pieces are quick-fire routines. If you read them aloud, they'd amount, in time, to the usual comedy spots, minus the segue. The topics are not much different from many other humor books by women--they include the fun, foibles, and fearsome experiences of being a woman in this day and age. The difference here is that Rudner is funny. Instead of eliciting merely a nod of recognition from the reader, she manages to get an actual laugh, giggle, or snort. The illustrations don't seem to add much to the book and are, in fact, a little on the amateurish side. But this shouldn't deter the acquisitions person from selecting a tried and true humorist for the collections.-- Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learning Corp . , Northbrook, Ill.
Stand-up comic Rudner observes male-female interaction and muses on such everyday activities as cooking, driving and restaurant dining in this collection of some 40 short, mostly autobiographical essays. Illustrations. (July)
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