The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing E-Book

Melissa Bank

• Herausgeber: Real
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

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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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

A D V A N C E D B E G I N N E R S

T H E F L O A T I N G H O U S E

M Y O L D M AN

T H E B E S T P O S S I B L E L I G H T

T H E W O R S T T H I N G A S U B U R B A N G I R L C O U L D I M A G I N E

Y O U C O U L D B E A N Y O N E

T H E G I R L S ' G U I D E T O H U N T I N G A N D F I S H I N G

 

TO MY REAL-LIFE GIRL GUIDES Adrienne Brodeur, Carole DeSanti, Carol Fiorino, Molly Friedrich, Judy Katz, and Anna Wingfield The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like(Write it!) like disaster. "One Art," fromThe Complete Poems 1927-1979 , by Elizabeth Bishop

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to Alexandra Babanskyj, Barbara Grossman, Susan Petersen, and Paul Slovak at Viking; to Francis Coppola, Karla Eoff, Alicia Patterson, Samantha Schnee, and Joanna Yas atZoetrope: All Story; to Kathy Minton and Isaiah Sheffer at Selected Shorts; to Lucy Childs and Paul Cirone at the Aaron Priest Literary Agency; to my trusty readers—Michael Atmore, Joan Bank, Donna Barba, Margery Bates, Scott Bryson, Arthur Chernoff, Paul Cody, Jane Dickinson, Hunter Hill, Mitch Karsh, Ken Katz, Peter Landes-man, Alex Moon, Jane Moriarty, Sylvie Rabineau, Michael Ruby, Oren Rudavsky, Julie Schumacher, Sandy Stillman, Joe Sweet, John Szalay, Jack "Wetling, Judy Wohl—and especially Garth Wingfield, who helped me with every version of every story; and, finally, thanks to my brother, Andrew Bank, for listening to all the boring details, making me laugh every day, and always coming to the rescue.

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