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Bouncing Back: I'Ve Survived Everything-- And I Mean Everything-- And You Can Too | 
 enlarge | Author: Joan Rivers
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 2187582
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 273
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0786209321
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
EAN: 9780786209323
ASIN: 0786209321
Publication Date: June 1997
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BiographyLarge Print EditionIn Bouncing Back Joan Rivers blends her explosively funny voice with deep compassion to produce a memorable book. Heres a fiercely honest, hilarious and moving tale of how one of comedys great stars survived the worst that life could throw at her her husbands suicide, estrangement from her daughter, the cancellation of her talk show, a TV boycott against her and financial catastrophe and how she bounced back to the top. Joan spares no painful detail in sharing the plan that enabled her to defeat all that threatened to destroy her in this poignant, uplifting, and richly funny memoir of a gutsy comeback against dismaying odds.
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 Sad Funny True September 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the book and I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with Joan.
Bouncing Back helped me cope after seeing my Daddy die. February 25, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The audio book version of "Bouncing Back" is WONDERFUL! It's read by Joan Rivers herself, the way she intended for it to be read :-) Her moving message of survival comes through loud & clear & of course FUNNY! What a lady! What a TALENT! THANK YOU Ms. Rivers for being so forthcoming with us. Your story is truly INSPIRATIONAL!
Very uplifting April 12, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Joan has some helpful advice on how to overcome obstacles in life. While she is not a psychologist, she has been through many painful things in her life and has always "bounced back."
 Pitiful February 2, 2001
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
Joan Rivers presents herself as the most put upon victim in the world, the ultimate survivor. Heartrending. I'm sure that the AIDS victims, the cancer patients, the Christopher Reeves of this world, will join me in sympathizing with this martyr.
Hurray for Joan! July 12, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I can't believe that those who are putting down this book have gone through much of a crisis in their lives. Having gone through the fire myself with losing a father, nephew, and son in addition to illnesses and financial troubles, I found this book to be very inspirational. This may be because Joan was echoing what I have come to believe on my own, but sharing it with the world takes a huge amount of courage. I never cared much about her as a comedienne but a person's work does not necessarily reflect who they are inside. I felt very sorry for her when her husband committed suicide and, at the time, I remember wondering if she was just going to shrink into herself and go off on her own to lick her wounds. Well, she didn't and I say, bravo, Joan! Edgar is gone but you and Melissa are still here and to keep plugging away at life takes strength. I have had so many people ask me how I go on and say they couldn't do it. Well, you have two choices: you either give up or you go on. We are big on humor in our family and a bit of black humor does come out now and then. I am just very careful as to who I allow to hear it. You need to separate Joan from her work to get what she is saying in this book. And, if you can do so, and if you can learn from it, you will go on and you will be stronger. Those who nitpick specifics like decorating your house and all will be well are totally missing the point. What she is saying is to find what makes you feel better and get up off your bum and do it. Don't sit and wallow in self-pity and pain. Believe me, when a loved one is no longer there in your life, just vegetating can be SO attractive. It takes a huge amount of strength just to get out of bed in the morning. Who says we aren't supposed to laugh after someone dies? My son loved to laugh and to not do so would be to dishonor his memory. I know he is out there laughing with us just as Joan's Edgar is applauding her efforts to get on with her life.
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