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After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise, and never rules. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.
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Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
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Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried
Melissa Bank is the author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction, and holds an MFA from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in Allure, The Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Guardian, The North American Review, O: the Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, The Washington Post, Zoetrope and many others. Her books have been translated into 33 languages. She divides her time between New York City and East Hampton.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0140292683
- ISBN 13 9780140292688
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- Number of pages274
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Book Description Condition: Bueno. BIOGRAFÍA DEL AUTORMelissa Bank is the author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction, and holds an MFA from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in Allure, The Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Guardian, The North American Review, O: the Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, The Washington Post, Zoetrope and many others. Her books have been translated into 33 languages. She divides her time between New York City and East Hampton. Seguir leyendo EAN: 9780140292688 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: The Girls' Guide to Hunting And FishingAutor: Melissa Bank Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd Formato: Libro de bolsillo. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-01-09-9c972ace
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. 274 pages. 165 grams. This book is in good condition marked only by previous owner's inscription on dedication page. 'When it comes to the mating game, Jane's still learning how to play. As a teenager she tried to understand relationships by watching her elder brother falling in and out of love, and now, older but none the wiser, she embarks on her own affairs. There's the boyfriend with the irritatingly beautiful ex; the witty and worldly Older Man; the commitment-phobic who calls her honey but never uses her name. Plenty of fish in the sea - but how do you find a man worth catching? When she finally resorts to How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, a hilariously old-fashioned guide to hunting out and reeling in the man of your dreams, Jane discovers that with love, life and men, a girl doesn't need rules.' 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Modern.; ISBN: 0140292683. ISBN/EAN: 9780140292688. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 000120. Seller Inventory # 000120
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