Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

A single, thirty-year-old woman in the 1970s struggles to find her dream man and dream job in this hilarious & heartwarming classic. Three decades after its original bestselling publication, Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York is still completely on target as the most achingly funny book-length suicide note ever written by an agonizingly single thirty-year-old trying unsuccessfully to straddle two worlds: the one shes been programmed for from birthmarriage first, life laterand the illusive swinging singles scene of liberated New York City. Meet Sheila Levine, shes smart and funny, and her mother tells her shes beautiful. . . . But her skirts always a bit wrinkled, shes trying to lose fifteenmake that twenty-fivepounds, she just turned thirty . . . and shes still single. She tries to date and mate, she really does, but disappointment turns to desperation, and after a flash of insight, Sheila calmly decides to kill herself. So she starts to get her affairs in order and writes a suicide note to her loving parents to explain it all . . . Praise for Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York Sometimes heartbreaking, mostly hilarious, always full of life. Newsweek A book about suicide shouldnt be this entertaining, but this one is hilarious, due in large part to Sheilas devil may care attitude and the frankness with which she talks about her life. The Bookbag