Melissa Bank

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is a 1999 collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14. The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing spent 16 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. It was a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier." Newsweek critic Yahlin Chang wrote, "Bank draws exquisite portraits of loneliness, and she can do it in a sentence." Others placed Bank in the school of restraint exemplified by Hemingway and Raymond Carver.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Real
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9791222041735
• Artikelnr.: 67152413

Autorenporträt

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, Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Guardian, North American Review, O: the Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, 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.