
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
#64 of 3,809 books · #33 in Biography & Memoir
Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2014) and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2014). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
An alphabet of things to avoid, Do Not Want showcases the fears, phobias, and anxieties that occupy the fertile imagination of Roz Chast.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- ISBN-13
- 9781620406380
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Awards
- Kirkus Prize for NonfictionWon(2014)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyWonMajor(2014)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2014)
Other awarded books from Roz Chast
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