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Publication
Back Bay Books (2012), 275 pages
Description
From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
Media reviews
Only the American comic Tina Fey could get away with such a revelation-free 'memoir'.
But Fey’s memoir is wholly cleansed of any real darkness. It preempts any probing into real frailties and flaws. Of course, this is the point; it is designed to disarm.
Neurosis makes Bossypants funny (and it is very funny), but it is fueled by reflexive self-deprecation instead of real
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Awards
Audie Award (Finalist — Humor — 2012)
CBC Bookie Awards (Nominee — 2012)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2011)
Booklist Top of the List: Best of Editors' Choice (Audio — 2011)