Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro
Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro
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Autobiography of a Fat Bride
True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

Author: Laurie Notaro

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/01/2011


Synopsis

In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother's grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-died shirts because their hippie parents spent their food money on drugs and art supplies; to her night-before-the-wedding panic over whether her religion is the one where you step on the glass; to her unfortunate overpreparation for the mandatory drug-screening urine test at work; to her audition as a Playboy centerfold as research for a newspaper story, Autobiography of a Fat Bride has the same candor and outrageous humor that made Idiot Girls an instant cult phenomenon.

In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie contemplates family, home improvement, and the horrible tyrannies of cosmetic saleswomen. She finds that life doesn't necessarily get any easier as you get older. But it does get funnier.

About Laurie Notaro

Laurie Notaro was a reporter and a daily columnist at the metro daily the Arizona Republic before publishing twelve books of fiction and nonfiction with Random House and Simon & Schuster, several of which have been New York Times bestsellers. Her work covers the genres of humor, women's fiction, historical fiction, and literary fiction. She was a finalist for the Thurber Prize, and has been awarded the Hearst Award, the Golden Circle Award, and several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ciara on October 11, 2009

this wasn't great literature, but it was far superior to the execrable i love everybody. i have made it pretty clear in other reviews that i am not a big laurie notaro fan, but when it's sitting on the free rack at a library book sale, what have i got to lose? i mean, it took me about twenty minutes......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 07, 2010

I found this book to be absolutely hysterical, so much so, that I was laughing so hard while reading it, the bed was shaking. The book is more memoirs from the author during the time she's dating her future husband, their wedding, and when they're first married. I find her writing style to be absolu......more

Goodreads review by Beth on March 28, 2013

This woman is hilarious! When I first picked it up, I assumed it would be chapter upon chapter of some chick ranting about trying on wedding dresses and then eating too much sample cake. The chapters were little stories in themselves, all laugh out loud funny, about being a newlywed who basically li......more