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The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig, by P. J. O'Rourke

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Brief Synopsis:

A book about cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who don't know how to do any of those things and aren't about to learn.

Long Synopsis:

"I always wanted to be a bachelor when I grew up. My friends may have had fantasies about raking the yard, seeing their loved ones in pin curlers and cleaning the garage on Sundays, but not me. I saw myself at thirty-eight lounging around a penthouse in a brocade smoking jacket. Vivaldi would be playing on the stereo. I'd sip brandy from a snifter the size of a fish tank and leaf through an address book full of R-rated phone numbers. ..." Always with tongue firmly in cheek, the author points out the trouble, for bachelors, with laundromats, cooking, shopping and everything else that goes along with managing a house. "Bachelor cooking is a matter of attitude. If you think of it as setting fire to things and making a mess, it's fun. It's not so much fun if you think of it as dinner. Fortunately, baloney, cheeseburgers, beer, and potato-chip dip provide all the daily nutrients bachelors are known to require. I mean, I hope they do."

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

127 Pages

ISBN-10:

067161746X

ISBN-13:

9780671617462

Publisher:

N/A

Date of Addition:

07/22/05

Copyright Date:

1987

Copyrighted By:

P. J. O'Rourke

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Entertainment, Cooking, Food and Wine, Home and Garden, Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Carrie Karnos

Proofread By:

Lena Hinkle

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