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Help Yourself - Three scalding stories

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Informationen zum Autor Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling Rodham. Other novels include American Wife and Prep, both bestsellers and longlisted for the Orange Prize, The Man of My Dreams, Sisterland , Eligible, and the acclaimed short story collections You Think It, I'll Say It and Help Yourself. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Oprah Magazine and the New York Times magazine. Sittenfeld was also the guest editor for the 2020 Best American Short Stories anthology. She lives with her family in the American Midwest. Follow her on Twitter @CSittenfeld Klappentext Discover these fabulous stories by the bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY, AMERICAN WIFE and YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT. 'Nobody else writes with such precision and amusement' RED MAGAZINE'Recommended for anyone who enjoys short stories. Delicious' PANDORA SYKES, The High-Low podcast____________________________________Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary. Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory. A STYLIST Best Books for Autumn titleFeatured in the Sunday Times Guide to CulturePraise for CURTIS SITTENFELD:'You won't want these stories to end' REESE WITHERSPOON'Perfect miniatures in deadpan prose' GUARDIAN'Clear-eyed and compulsive' MAIL ON SUNDAY Zusammenfassung Discover these fabulous stories by the bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY, AMERICAN WIFE and YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT. ' Nobody else writes with such precision and amusement' RED MAGAZINE 'Recommended for anyone who enjoys short stories. Delicious' PANDORA SYKES, The High-Low podcast ____________________________________ Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary. Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory. A STYLIST Best Books for Autumn title Featured in the Sunday Times Guide to Culture Praise for CURTIS SITTENFELD: 'You won't want these stories to end' REESE WITHERSPOON ' Perfect miniatures in deadpan prose' GUARDIAN ' Clear-eyed and compulsive' MAIL ON SUNDAY ...

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Authors Curtis Sittenfeld, Sittenfeld Curtis
Publisher Doubleday
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.10.2020
 
EAN 9780857527479
ISBN 978-0-85752-747-9
No. of pages 96
Dimensions 136 mm x 204 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships

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