ISBN: 9780375411069 - stuffed: adventures of a restaurant family (11 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. From the collection of Robyn (Mrs. Charles) Krauthammer. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Author-signed first edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is bound in quarter light brown cloth and cream paper-covered boards, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket display very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. ix/242 pages. Inscription on title page reads "For Ellen, / With thanks for / putting STUFFED on the / table!! / Patricia Volk / New York 2001". "In a restaurant family, you're never just hungryyou're starving to death. And you're never fullyou're stuffed. Patricia Volk's family is as American (background: Austrian-Jewish) as "Rhapsody in Blue." They came to these shores determined to make their mark; each of them is a piquant morsel of history. Great-grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob was known as "the Most Destructive Force on Wall Street" and was memorialized by E. B. White as "the greatest wrecker of all time" for his innovative method of demolition. Uncle Albert was the first man to stir scallions into cream cheese. The last of Grandfather Herman Morgen's fourteen restaurants was a famous garment center hangout. One grandmother won the 1916 trophy for "Best Legs in Atlantic City." The other was a three-hundred-pound calendar girl. Ms. Volk's handsome, demanding restaurateur father invented the Six-color Retractable Pen and Pencil Set and the Double-sided Cigarette Lighter (so you never have to worry which end is up). For three generations, just about every Volk and Morgen (with the exception of Uncle Al, who had an eleven-year affair with Aunt Lil and then refused to marry her because she wasn't a virgin) has, no matter what the circumstances, exhibited a terrifyingly positive attitude. With a cosmic disdain for the status quo, all of themthe tyrants, do-gooders, lovers, martyrs, and fakeslived at full tilt. Stuffed is a wildly funny yet unsparing look at how families work.". Inscribed by Author(s).…

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