Live Alone And Like It
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Descripción editorial
THE BEST SELLING NOVEL WHICH CREATED A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON
'A perfect bedside companion for the post-Bridget Jones generation' DAILY TELEGRAPH (CANADA)
'Hillis's book gave rise to 'Live Alone' accessories, including cocktail shakers, china dogs and negligees' WALL STREET JOURNAL
'She was boldly leading a vanguard of young women into a self-reliant, judgment-free future' NATIONAL
This 1936 bestseller sold over 100,000 copies in the first two months of its release. Marjorie Hillis, a 1930s Vogue editor, provides a stylish, no-nonsense guide to living and loving single life. Written with wisdom, humour and panache, this is advice that will never go out of fashion. She takes women through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, 'for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief.'
'Chances are that at sometime in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence. You may do it from choice. Lots of people do ... Whether you view your one-woman menage as Doom or Adventure (and whether you are twenty-six or sixty-six), you need a plan.'
Who can resist a book with chapters such as 'A Lady and Her Liquor', 'Pleasures of a Single Bed' and 'Solitary Refinement'? Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to live-aloners' and those considering taking the plunge.
With beautiful and stylish line drawings by a Vogue illustrator.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published in 1936, with the chilling subtitle A Guide for the Extra Woman, this bestseller became a manifesto for single women (and those between husbands ) keen on embarking on stylish solitary living. Although many of Hillis's prescriptions are naturally outmoded, it's impossible not to be charmed by her arch humor and old Hollywood glamour as she demands that her genteel readers simply must have four bed jackets, seven kinds of liquor and the right cold cream. A Vogue editor and proponent of solitary refinement, Hillis exhorts women to indulge themselves unblushingly "albeit thriftily "within their homes. Despite her fascination with frou-frou and beaux, Hillis bucks convention "arguing that women should be free to entertain men at home, drink in bars and generally do as they please; you will soon find that independence, more truthfully than virtue, is its own reward, she advises. If slight on prescriptions suitable to modern-day living, this slim guide is replete with entertaining illustrations by Cip Pineles and case studies about live-aloners ( Miss P. is a young woman of limited income, but unlimited ingenuity... ) providing ample nostalgic pleasure.
