author and would like to have your work considered for inclusion on this page. 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. Weve read almost everything there is to read on how to live well alone. 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.

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 bid a fond farewell to the live-aloners by marrying. Fdocuments.in Molly Johnson Bass Book in Alphabetical Order Molly Johnson Bass Book In. 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. Thus begins Marjorie Hillis' archly funny, gently prescriptive manifesto for single women. Three years after the books publication, at the age of forty-nine, Ms. 'Whether you view your one-woman ménage as Doom or Adventure, you need a plan, if you are going to make the best of it.'

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.'

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