01765cam a2200325 i 4500 360620411 TxAuBib 20181029120000.0 050322s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005273082 9781400079094 16.95 1400079098 16.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Lamott, Anne. Operating instructions [BOOK] : a journal of my son's first year / Anne Lamott. New York : Anchor Books, 2005. x, 251 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, 1993." -Title page verso. It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life. Provided by publisher. 20181029. Lamott, Anne. Lamott, Anne. Family. Mother and infant. Single mothers United States Biography. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Biographies.