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Language: English
Published by Knopf, 2001
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- Title
- Getting a Life: Stories
- Author
- Helen Simpson
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375411097
- ISBN 13
- 9780375411090
Set against the backdrop of modern-day London, a collection of nine entertaining short stories captures the joys, tribulations, triumphs, and annoyances of domestic life as it explores the worlds of two female teachers exchanging drunken confidences at a small cafT, a teenage poetry lover who resolves to build a future far different from her career-oriented mother, and others. 12,500 first printing.
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Review
Brilliantly biting . . . Mordant comedy and lush, exact language. Laurie Stone, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Wonderfully funny and disturbing . . . Waugh-like acerbity and wit. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A welcome corrective to the recent chick-lit bubble. For those who like their fiction short, sharp and served with a side of black comedy. Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle
Breathtaking and beautiful . . . admirable and haunting. Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
Both acidic and tender . . . deliver[s] some pretty serious shocks of recognition. Jeff Giles, Newsweek
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"Brilliantly biting . . . Mordant comedy and lush, exact language." -Laurie Stone, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Wonderfully funny and disturbing . . . Waugh-like acerbity and wit." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A welcome corrective to the recent chick-lit bubble. For those who like their fiction short, sharp and served with a side of black comedy." -Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle
"Breathtaking and beautiful . . . admirable and haunting." -Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
"Both acidic and tender . . . deliver[s] some pretty serious shocks of recognition." -Jeff Giles, Newsweek
Wonderfully funny and disturbing . . . Waugh-like acerbity and wit. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A welcome corrective to the recent chick-lit bubble. For those who like their fiction short, sharp and served with a side of black comedy. Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle
Breathtaking and beautiful . . . admirable and haunting. Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
Both acidic and tender . . . deliver[s] some pretty serious shocks of recognition. Jeff Giles, Newsweek
"
"Brilliantly biting . . . Mordant comedy and lush, exact language." -Laurie Stone, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Wonderfully funny and disturbing . . . Waugh-like acerbity and wit." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A welcome corrective to the recent chick-lit bubble. For those who like their fiction short, sharp and served with a side of black comedy." -Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle
"Breathtaking and beautiful . . . admirable and haunting." -Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
"Both acidic and tender . . . deliver[s] some pretty serious shocks of recognition." -Jeff Giles, Newsweek
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