Life of the Party: The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire is a fascinating book. Author Bob Kealing, an award-winning broadcast journalist, provides an extensive, in-depth look at Tupperware’s humble origins and inner workings. Written in third person narrative, Kealing combines his research with countless interviews of Tupperware’s major players. The book is set during the 1950’s, and follows both Wise and Earl Tupper — inventor extraordinaire — from their early lives to their fateful showdown over the future of Tupperware. Kealing succeeds in providing unbiased reporting, so readers can form their own conclusions of what really happened. Pick up a copy of Life of the Party before the movie, rumored to star Sandra Bullock, is released!
Review of an Advance Reader Copy
This book was sent to Compass Book Ratings for review by Crown Archetype
Content Analysis:
Profanity/Language: 1 religious exclamation, 4 mild obscenities, 2 anatomical terms.
Violence/Gore: A secondhand report of violence includes a man attempting to throw acid at a relative (and missing); in a brief, non-detailed scene of violent death, a person dies in a bombing.
Sex/Nudity: None
Mature Subject Matter:
Gender roles, racism, divorce, segregation, alcoholism.
Alcohol / Drug Use:
A character is described as an alcoholic and a drunk; a man is mentioned smoking a pipe.
