A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney by Andrew A. Rooney (1981, Hardcover)

A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney
by Andrew A. Rooney
Publisher: Atheneum
Copyright 1981
Book Club Edition

For nearly twenty years, Andy Rooney's wry, rueful, commonsensical essays on American life have been appearing as hour and half-hour specials on television and, since 1978, as "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" on 60 Minutes.  In that time, he has delighted hundreds of millions of people with his explorations of everyday life, his celebrations of the uncelebrated and his skewerings of pomposity -- with the kind of home truths that evoke a nod of recognition, and a smile of pleasure.

A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney gathers together the best of his essays, more than fifty in all.  It includes his longer pieces on houses, hotels, chairs, advertising, New York City and war; his Mr. Rooney Goes to . . . series on Washington, dinner and work; and his observations on just about everything else including junk mail, bank names, sizes ("I wear 8 1/2 shoe, but a size 11 sock.  Does this make sense?  On the same foot?"), soap slivers ("No one wants sharp soap"), coffee-can savers, elections, youth, Type A behavior, designer underwear ("Is there something I don't understand here?"), catalogs, signs -- and the fact that there is no Mrs. Smith at Mrs. Smith's Pies.

Illustrated with eighty photographs chosen especially for this book, A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney is in itself a cause for celebration.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover shows edge wear and tear, and creases.  Dust cover flaps may be tanning from age.

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