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"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium."
- Henry W. Fowler,
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
(1926)
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 Format: Hardcover - LARGE PRINT BOOK,
Edition: LARGEPRINT
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books, Inc.
ISBN: 0753196727
Release Date: Jan 7, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival-and she has the scars to prove it.
In Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress— part memoir, part social commentary, part guide on how to behave when dining out-Ginsberg takes readers on an intimate journey of her twenty years as a waitress at the dingiest of diners, a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, and more. While chronicling her parallel evolution as a writer and single mother, the book also takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life-revealing that, yes, when pushed, a server will spit in food, and, no, that's not really decaf you're getting-and at how most people in this business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else.
Colorful, insightful, and often irreverent, Ginsberg's stories truly capture the spirit of the universal things she's learned about human nature, interpersonal relationships, the frightening things that go on in the kitchen, romantic hopes dashed and rebuilt, and all of the frustrating and funny moments in this life. Waiting is for everyone who has had to wait for their life to begin-only to realize, suddenly, that they're living it.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
A compelling story but lacks a rhythm in the storytelling.
-- becky, a reader and cooking enthusiast, January 9, 2002
Also Recommended: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
This Book is a Complete Meal!
-- Chad Spivak, August 17, 2000
Fellow waitress applauds your service!
-- Rene Backus, a new fan of this author, September 5, 2000
A look at one of the world's oldest professions
-- Tasha, October 17, 2000
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
The debut of a new and compelling writer is always a cause for celebration. Debra Ginsberg culls from a lifetime of waiting a humor, insight, and compassion that places her in the tradition of fine old tale-spinners. We have here, perhaps for the first time in literature, a true portrait of the demanding art of waiting on tables, from which Ginsberg has fashioned a wise, page-turning commentary on the human condition.
— (Kim Chernin, author of In My Mother's House) —Kim Chernin
Every time I go to a restaurant now, I think of what must be happening behind the scenes. Ginsberg's stories really stay with you. A great read from start to finish.
— (Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander) —Janet Fitch
Debra Ginsberg's great gift is the quiet way she's able to point up the truths that reside in the innocent setting of the restaurant, in the harmless summer job that becomes the lifelong career, in the transitory exchanges that oftentimes have lasting effects, and in the character that develops while pursuing the philosophically complex occupation of waiting. This book reminds the reader that the waitress taking your order is also, maybe, noting much more with her pen. This is a strong debut.
&$151;(Antonya Nelson, author of Nobody's Girl) —Antonya Nelson
Debra Ginsberg's Waiting touched me, made me laugh, made me hunger—so to speak—to know more and more about the ups and downs of her life. It's a life of cups and saucers, shouting diners and lunatic restaurant owners, the tug and pull of single motherhood, romantic hopes dashed and rebuilt and finally, the many, many beautiful notes of epiphany she so wonderfully renders.
— (Lisa Schiffman, author of Generation J) —Lisa Schiffman
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | ix | | Introduction | xi | | 1. | The luncheonette | 1 | | 2. | Tipping (it's not a city in china) | 23 | | 3. | The back of the house | 45 | | 4. | Working the fantasy | 69 | | 5. | The art of waiting | 105 | | 6. | Molotov cocktail waitress | 133 | | 7. | In the family way | 159 | | 8. | A diner in california | 189 | | 9. | Food and sex | 211 | | 10. | "Hello, i'll be your postfeminist icon this evening" | 241 | | 11. | Still waiting | 259 |
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