My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt
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 mother from America living in London.

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 to eating disorders, office politics, and those perennial areas of interest: love and sex.

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My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt
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 mother from America living in London.

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 to eating disorders, office politics, and those perennial areas of interest: love and sex.

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My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt

My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt

by Irma Kurtz
My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt

My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt

by Irma Kurtz

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Overview

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 mother from America living in London.

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 to eating disorders, office politics, and those perennial areas of interest: love and sex.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846883552
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 03/29/2016
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Born in New Jersey, Irma Kurtz has been Cosmopolitan's agony aunt for the past forty years. After earning a degree in English literature, Irma traveled around Europe before finally settling in London. There she joined the brand-new Cosmopolitan magazine and instituted its iconic agony aunt column, which she then also wrote for the American edition. She has contributed widely to many national papers, with frequent radio and TV appearances. Irma has written eight other books.

Table of Contents

1 Who Do I Think I Am? 3

2 Love is a Four-Letter Word 18

3 Breaking up without Falling Apart 33

4 The Family Business 50

5 To Bear or Not to Bear 73

6 Money Makes the World Go Round (And Doesn't It Go Fast?) 92

7 Body Image Imagined 113

8 Friends with a Feminine Ending 133

9 Can Men and Women Be "Just" Friends? 155

10 Snake-Belly Lows 178

11 Truth and Consequences 201

12 How Do I Know? 222

13 Where Did I Put My Keys? 242

14 I Told You So 264

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