It Looked Different on the Model - Laurie Notaro [0]
Spooky Little Girl
“A comedic killer … Notaro crafts a wondrously realistic afterlife.… She is able to make death laughable in a heart-felt way.”
—Bust
“A crazy, funny version of the afterlife.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A novel that is full of laughter … [Notaro] has a winner with this hilarious take on the joys and sorrows of the ‘surprised demised.’ ”
—ChronWatch
“A fun story that mixes [Notaro’s] unique humor with a sweet paranormal tale of friendship, family, and unfinished business.”
—BookBitch
“Pure, unexpurgated Notaro … Again [she] turns on the truth serum, and the results once more are riotously funny.… Spooky Little Girl is a great summer beach read. The freshness it brings to a tired idea in chick lit—girl loses everything and exacts revenge by making herself over—is, well, refreshing.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“An amazing story.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“We’re always thrilled to know that the prolific scribe of Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood and We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive will crack us the you-know-what up with a new book just when we’re casting about for something to read.”
—Phoenix New Times
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
“Hilarious.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“[Laurie Notaro] writes with a flair that leaves you knowing she would be a gal you could commiserate with over a bucket of longneck beers. If you need to laugh over the little annoyances of life, this is a book for you. If you need to cry over a few of them, Flaming Tantrum can fit that bill, too.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A double-handful of chuckle-worthy vignettes … Notaro blends sardonic, often self-deprecating comedy with disarming sincerity.”
—Publishers Weekly
“For pure laugh-out-loud, then read-out-loud fun, it’s hard to beat this humor writer.”
—New Orleans Times-Picayune
There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might be Going to Hell
“[Notaro’s] quirky humor, which she’s previously showcased in her cult-classic essays on girly dorkdom, runs rampant.”
—Bust
“Notaro is a natural comic, a graduate of the Jennifer Weiner school of self-deprecation, but she’s best when she’s being nasty.”
—Houston Chronicle
I Love Everybody
“Notaro is everywoman. She is every woman who has ever made a bad judgment, overindulged (you pick the vice), been on a fad diet, been misunderstood at work, been at odds with her mother or been frustrated with her grandmother’s obsession with Lifetime TV, while somehow being a little too familiar with the conflicted, star-crossed person-ages of those movies.”
—San Antonio Express-News
Autobiography of a Fat Bride
“Notaro’s humor is self-deprecating, gorily specific, and raunchy.”
—A.V. Club (The Onion)
“[Notaro] may be the funniest writer in this solar system.”
—The Miami Herald
ALSO BY LAURIE NOTARO
Spooky Little Girl
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell
An Idiot Girl’s Christmas
We Thought You Would Be Prettier
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)
Autobiography of a Fat Bride
The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club
It Looked Different on the Model is a work of nonfiction.
Some names and identifying details have been changed.
A Villard Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2011 by Laurie Notaro
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Villard Books,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
VILLARD BOOKS and VILLARD & “V” CIRCLED Design
are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Notaro, Laurie.
It looked different on the model: epic tales of impending shame and infamy /
Laurie Notaro.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52631-1
1. Notaro, Laurie. 2. American wit and humor. 3. Humorists, American—21st century—Biography. 4. Young women—Humor. I. Title.
PS3614.O785Z474 2011
814′.6—dc22 2011002205
www.villard.com
Cover design: Rob Grom
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