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Title: How to Manage Your Mother : Understanding the Most Difficult, Complicated, and Fascinating Relationship in Your Life by Alyce Faye Cleese, Brian Bates ISBN: 0-06-098833-9 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Get ready for a kaleidoscopic read!
Comment: While on one level this book, written by globetrotting psychotherapist Alyce Faye Cleese truly is a valuable book for contemplating your own relationship with Mom and for dealing with any unresoved issues with her, it is far more than a how-to.... Written in highly readable narrative, the multiple-faceted How to Manage Your Mother provides intriguing glimpses into the maternal scrapbooks of the world's powerful and famous. Peruse the acknowlegement page. Once you've lowered your eyebrows, start matching celebrity to mother... Some mothers are openly honored while the identity of others has been changed to disguise the cloven-hoofed. The role of the mother-behind-the-person makes a most fascinating study.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remembering Mama
Comment: Alice Faye Cleese's book is filled with fascinating case histories -- including some famous folks' relationships with their mothers(ie Mike Nichols, Stephen Sondheim, Lauren Hutton and the author's husband--the celebrated actor John Cleese. In today's world career moms don't have as much time to spend on 'der kinder' as my mom's generation, and I have heard sad stories, particularly about those young people growing up in the 'drug' age. HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MOTHER will be helpful for all problem mothers and children to open a dialogue for further understanding of their relationships It might not have been as necessary in my mother's day when fewer women had careers;most of their time was devoted to their families, so much so that when children grew up many moms didn't have enough of their own interests to fall back on. This easily read 'textbook' offers solid advice! And it encourages you to 'remember mama' .I always had a very close relationship with mine, but she has been dead over 40 years and I don't always think of her. The pleasure for me in reading How To Manage Your Mother was that it not only brought back many warm and tender memories, but also in pointing out many bad vibes between parent and child, it made me realize how lucky I was to have had a mother as beautifully giving as mine. Cornell University has now added this book to their psychologicl reading list, but it's great for the layman! I can't wait for the sequel on managing fathers--not just because I'm a dad, but what a nice gift for my sons and grandsons next Father's Day!
Rating: 2
Summary: Shameless Exploitation of Celebrity Connections
Comment: It's no coincidence that many of this book's reviews point out that the author (who evidently needed some help to write it) is the wife of former Monty Python member John Cleese. While the book isn't bad, it's superficial, and might not have been published had the author not filled it with vaguely relevant anecdotes about her B-list pals and their reminiscences about their mommys. It's difficult to understand why an author of such a book would find it necessary to provide the full names of each of these folks, except to entice readers who can't get enough of any scrap of information about, say, Lauren Hutton, or who are fascinated to discover that actors have less-than-perfect relationships like everyone else. In any event, there are many books that offer much more insight and practical advice on how to resolve some of the problems that often arise out of the mother-child relationship.
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Title: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life by Victoria Secunda ISBN: 0385304234 Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Mama Drama: Making Peace With the One Woman Who Can Push Your Buttons, Make You Cry, and Drive You Crazy by Denise McGregor ISBN: 0312204213 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity by Nancy Friday ISBN: 0385320159 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Mothers and Their Adult Daughters: Mixed Emotions, Enduring Bonds by Karen L., Ph.D. Fingerman ISBN: 159102028X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters, and the Power of Empathy by Martha Manning ISBN: 0380977192 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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