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How to Stay Bitter Through the Happiest Times of Your Life
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Villard Books
Publication date June 13, 2006
Pages 219
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780812976199
ISBN-10 0812976193
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.25 by 7.75 in.
Weight 0.40 lbs.
Original list price $13.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In a follow-up to How to Heal the Hurt by Hating, the New York poet and performer meets that man of her dreams and is forced to move from outspoken single woman to married bliss, determined not to lose her edge or sense of self while discovering if one can maintain personal happiness and one's artistic edginess. Original. 35,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: “I had a lot of bad dates. But I wrote a lot of good poems.”

So maintains Anita Liberty, the caustically funny New York City performance artist who was going along happily healing her hurt by hating and humiliating her detestable ex-boyfriend on stage and in print until the unthinkable happened: she had a good date. And one good date deserves another. And another. And another. And, all of the sudden, Anita Liberty finds herself in a predicament. Getting dumped launched Anita’s career–Will falling in love finish it? Who’s more important: her devoted audience or her newly devoted boyfriend? And on top of everything, Hollywood won’t stop calling and Anita can’t figure out if It wants a serious commitment or just a little bit of no-strings-attached fun. From digging mercilessly into the minutiae of her new relationship to dramatically torching every professional bridge she crosses in L.A., Anita refuses to let a big load of bliss get dumped right in the middle of her career path.

“He said that my work was amazing and hilarious and smart and that he can’t wait to see me perform.
So I had sex with him.”

“My boyfriend asked me to change my look.
To something other than contemptuous.”

{BARGAIN} Whatever Hollywood ends up paying me for the rights to the story of my life.

“It’s easier to go back to fantasizing about perfection . . .
than to accept that perfection is just a fantasy.”

“Boyfriend thinks I’d rather be right than happy.
Boyfriend’s right.
But I’m not telling him that.”

Through blog entries, film scenes, poems, and to-do lists, Anita Liberty documents the perils and pitfalls of dating, sex, relationships, artistic success, and the kind of true love that sucks the creative life out of you to the point where you just end up staring at a blank computer screen and thinking gooey thoughts about your new boyfriend even though you should be writing.

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9780812976199 | details & prices | 219 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $13.95
About: The New York poet and performer falls in love and marries, determined not to lose her sense of self while discovering if one can maintain personal happiness and one's artistic edginess.

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