Laurie Graff

While searching for her soulmate, Karrie Kline reminisces about the past fifteen years of dating mishaps and foibles, including dreadful fix-ups, bizarre blind dates, chance encounters, and missed opportunities. Reprint.

You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs

Delving into the dating pond once again, aspiring actress Karrie Kline, now an off-off-Broadway success, wades through a wealth of bad frogs, from both past and present, to find Mr. Goodfrog, a single male, instead of the elusive Mr. Right, the perfect man. Original.

Looking For Mr. Goodfrog

Caren Lissner

Melanie Murray

A trio of absolutely fabulous stories of holiday madness and mayhem includes Laurie Graff's "The Eight Dates of Hannukkah," in which singles-event planner Nicki Heller, after a blow to the head, is forced to endure a hellish round of dating during Hannukkah. Original. 60,000 first printing.

Scenes from a Holiday

Join Karrie as she looks back at over fifteen years of dating.

A Fact About Frogging: With new species discovered every day, it's hard to find a rule to catch a good frog, except to say that when it comes to frogs there are no rules at all. Karrie Kline had kissed her share of frogs. But when it came to finding her prince, her pond was dry. With disappointments ranging from a Colorado-bound Casanova to a lascivious lawyer she meets online, Karrie's frustration climbs so high, even dreams of meeting her match on her own reality show become a nightmare. But she still has her tales. An enterprising actress, Karrie turns her dating stories into a successful one-woman show. Has her quest to put her bad-date karma to good use turned her into a dating pariah? Her old frogs are hopping out of the woodwork. But offstage, Karrie journeys back to the beginning to figure out how she got here. From finding her very first tadpole on up to her biggest horniest toad, Karrie comes away with an even stronger sense of herself and relationships, passing on a prince for her own good frog.

Looking for Mr. Goodfrog

You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs

Forty-five-year-old actress Karrie Kline doesn't usually lose a lot of sleep over her age or her single status. But after one too many bridal showers, a notice on her apartment, an expired unemployment claim and her acting prospects drying up—too old to play the ingenue, too young for the role of matriarch—she's awake at 2:00 a.m. and determined to get perspective on her life. Starting with the men she's dated. From the man whose parents loved her more than he did, to the famous actor who had more bark than bite, Karrie traces back through her love life to uncover how her experiences have shaped her and how to find meaning in the past. Told with warmth, wit and poignancy, You Have To Kiss a Lot of Frogs shows how to face your memories—even the darkest, most secret ones—with courage, humor and hope.

You Have To Kiss a Lot of Frogs

Karrie Kline è un’attrice alla ricerca della grande occasione, ma soprattutto del principe azzurro... Per trovarlo è disposta a baciare tutti i rospi del mondo, ma i suoi tentativi sembrano puntualmente destinati al fallimento. Dall’attore famoso che a letto inizia ad abbaiare anziché sussurrarle paroline dolci, al tassista che si crede irresistibile e da cui lei fugge a gambe levate, gli uomini sembrano davvero incapaci di conquistare il suo cuore. E con il lavoro non va molto meglio: interminabili e deludenti provini scandiscono le sue giornate, il grande momento si rifiuta di arrivare, e solo New York, la meravigliosa città che non dorme mai, le fa davvero perdere la testa. A Karrie non rimane che farsi coraggio: la vita riserva sempre delle sorprese e gli stagni sono ovunque, pieni di rospi... Con uno stile sarcastico, ironico e graffiante Laurie Graff confeziona un romanzo che ci fa divertire e sognare, raccontandoci una storia che assomiglia incredibilmente alle nostre, dedicata a tutte le donne che hanno ancora il coraggio di amare. «Un romanzo ironico e divertente che mostra quanto è difficile trovare l’uomo giusto. E quanto è tremendamente facile incappare in quello sbagliato.» Booklist «In una sorta di diario tragicomico, la nostra eroina ripercorre le tappe più significative dei suoi innumerevoli fallimenti amorosi.» Maria Teresa Scarsellini, Intimità «Scritto con uno stile graffiante, sarcastico e anche molto ironico, racconta una storia in cui tante donne si possono riconoscere.» Di Tutto Laurie Graff è una famosa attrice di teatro e innumerevoli sono le sue presenze in TV e alla radio. Autrice di testi teatrali, sta attualmente lavorando alla novellizzazione di una sua pièce. La Newton Compton ha già pubblicato il suo primo romanzo, Devi baciare un sacco di rospi.

Devi baciare un sacco di rospi

Upset when her boyfriend dumps her on Christmas, Jewish publicist Aimee Albert seeks companionship with a nice Jewish man and finds herself falling for Josh Hirsch, who mistakes her for a shiksa and who has a different attitude toward Judaism than she doe

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