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My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt
Irma Kurtz
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Description for My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt
Paperback. Warm, funny and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects that tend to concern and confuse us the most - from mother-daughter relationships through to eating disorders, office politics and those perennial areas of interest: love and sex. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; KNTJ; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
As Cosmopolitan’s professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American society. In these memoirs, she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades, as well as her own hectic and often difficult life as a single mum from America living in London. Warm, funny and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects ... Read more
As Cosmopolitan’s professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American society. In these memoirs, she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades, as well as her own hectic and often difficult life as a single mum from America living in London. Warm, funny and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846883552
SKU
V9781846883552
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About Irma Kurtz
Born in New Jersey, Irma Kurtz has been Cosmopolitan’s agony aunt for the past forty years. After taking a degree in English Literature, Irma travelled around Europe before finally settling in London. There she joined the brand-new Cosmopolitan magazine and launched its iconic agony-aunt column, which she then also wrote for the American edition. Irma has written two novels, three ... Read more
Reviews for My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt
The unshockable queen of advice.
Cosmopolitan
So wise that she is practically Confucius.
India Knight
The Sunday Times
Kurtz is exactly the sort of Wise Woman that all of us emotional wrecks would love to have as a best friend.
Daily Mail
A highly readable stew of opinions and happenings that one can ... Read more
Cosmopolitan
So wise that she is practically Confucius.
India Knight
The Sunday Times
Kurtz is exactly the sort of Wise Woman that all of us emotional wrecks would love to have as a best friend.
Daily Mail
A highly readable stew of opinions and happenings that one can ... Read more