I'd Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780446526760)

.Linda Richman--the basis of the Saturday Night Live "Coffee Talk" character developed by her son-in-law, Mike Myers--makes it her mission to get everyone to shake off the blues and make their way back into the world.

Linda Richman, self-described "typical Jewish girl from Long Island" and the most popular speaker at the world-renowned Canyon Ranch Spa, presents a tears and laughter guidebook guaranteed to help readers withstand life's hard knocks. The first four decades of her life were rife with tragedy: She lost her father at eight and her mother to depression soon after; later, she lost her husband to compulsive gambling; her son to a car accident; and spent 11 years battling agoraphobia.

But now, Linda shares her life story and how she learned that when all is said and done, the only cure that works, and the one that takes the most courage, is laughter. Combining wry, self-deprecating humor with hard-knocks wisdom, Linda makes it her mission to get everyone to shake off the blues and make their way back into the world. Because she knows from experience that when life makes you cry--that's the best time to laugh.

Author: Linda Richman
ISBN-10: 0446526762
ISBN-13: 9780446526760
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2001
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.28w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2000 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2000 pg. 1601
Glamour 01/01/2001 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2001 pg. 76
Library Journal 01/01/2001 pg. 136
People Weekly 02/26/2001 pg. 38
Library Journal 09/15/2000