Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780446178228)

In this witty, engaging guide, a renowned Vogue editor takes readers through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, "for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief."

"Whether you view your one-woman m駭age as Doom or Adventure, you need a plan, if you are going to make the best of it."

Thus begins Marjorie Hillis' archly funny, gently prescriptive manifesto for single women. Though it was 1936 when the Vogue editor first shared her wisdom with her fellow singletons, the tome has been passed lovingly through the generations, and is even more apt today than when it was first published. Hillis, a true bon vivant, was sick and tired of hearing single women carping about their living arrangements and lonely lives; this book is her invaluable wake-up call for single women to take control and enjoy their circumstances.

With engaging chapter titles like "A Lady and Her Liquor" and "The Pleasures of a Single Bed," along with a new preface by author Laurie Graff (You Have to Kiss A Lot of Frogs), Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to live-aloners--and those considering taking the plunge.

Author: Marjorie Hillis
ISBN-10: 0446178225
ISBN-13: 9780446178228
Publisher: 5 Spot
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/07/2008 pg. 55
Newsweek 05/26/2008 pg. 48