The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Published on 3. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-241-97360-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing is a deeply funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.
Penguin by Hand is a collection comprising six of Penguin's most popular women's fiction titles of recent years, all with new and beautiful craft-inspired jackets.
Penguin by Hand is a collection comprising six of Penguin's most popular women's fiction titles of recent years, all with new and beautiful craft-inspired jackets.
Reviews / Votes
This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd * The Guardian * One of the funniest, most assured books of the year * Esther Freud * It is, for me, a near-perfect book, one that I have pressed into the hands of several female friends and recommended on lists both solicited and not . . . it is a Great American Novel, all 274 pages of it. -- Bim Adewunmi * Buzzfeed * A sexy, funny, pour-your-heart-out, champagnetingle of a read * Cosmopolitan * Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier. * The Los Angeles Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
233 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-97360-8 (9780241973608)
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Person
Melissa Bank is the author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She lives in the US.