Life Smiles Back

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ISBN10: 0671672223
ISBN13: 9780671672225
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: Sep 15 1988
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.26 Depth: 11.04
Language: English

For many years, faithful readers of America's favorite magazine regularly began each issue of Life by thumbing to the back first to see the Miscellany page, which was designed to close each issue with an amusing -- often outrageous -- photograph that would leave the reader laughing. Life Smiles Back is a hilarious collection of the best photographs from this popular back page. Now in paperback, it includes 232 black-and-white photos of children, animals, and people in unconventional situations and outlandish circumstances, mostly taken by Life renders and assembled by one of the magazine's most renowned editors.

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