Always Happy Hour
Stories
Published on 2. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-63149-397-3 (ISBN)
Description
Mary Miller combines hard-edged prose and savage Southern charm. Claustrophobic and lonesome, acerbic and magnetic, the women in Always Happy Hour seek understanding in the most unlikely places-a dilapidated foster home where love is a liability and the empty corners of a dream home bought after a bitter divorce. Miller evokes the particular gritty comfort found in bad habits as hope turns to dust.
Reviews / Votes
"...enjoyable... a meditation on the stories a person tells herself." -- The New York Times Book Review "...a tipsy glow surrounds [Miller's] Southern women as they [nurse] an inner ache they can't booze away. In lucid, vivid prose, Miller renders them alive to lust and, however improbably, to love." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "You tune into each of [Miller's] narrators as though you'd missed their first two sentences, and the tempo guilts you into full attention. You don't look away before the story ends, and it leaves you admiring how sparingly it's been told." -- The TelegraphMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63149-397-3 (9781631493973)
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Mary Miller is the author of three previous books, including the story collection Always Happy Hour and the novel The Last Days of California. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow and John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.