The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

byMelissa Bank

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Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and work. Soon Jane is swept off her feet by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque whirl of cocktail parties, country houses, and rules that were made to be broken, but comes to realize that it's a world where the stakes are much too high for comfort. With an unforgettable comic touch, Bank skillfully teases out universal issues, puts a clever new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to come of age as a young woman.
Beautifully written and very funny. . . as with Salinger and Carver, there is crystalline simplicity to Bank's prose
Guardian

About Melissa Bank

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.
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  • Series: Penguin Essentials #122
  • Imprint: Viking
  • ISBN: 9780241611500
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Dimensions: 181mm x 18mm x 111mm
  • Weight: 167g
  • Price: £8.99
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