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Bank is an event waiting to happen. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing explores the life lessons of Jane, the contemporary American Everywoman who combines the charm of Bridget Jones, the vulnerability of Ally McBeal, and the wit of Lorrie Moore. As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane maneuvers her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of the workplace. She reluctantly succumbs to the questionable advice offered in a pop-psych book entitled How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right.
Accompanied at every turn by the ear-whispering authors (who bear an uncanny resemblance to two popular, hateful high school acquaintances) Jane makes a series of dating decisions that lead her in the right direction--but for the wrong reasons. Wise, poignant, and full of the kind of laugh-out-loud insight you just have to share with your best friend, Melissa Bank is the kind of writer readers have been waiting for: an original voice telling a universal story through characters we all love and recognize. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介 Melissa Bank’s work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope, Cosmopolitan, and other publications and aired on National Public Radio. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Amazon.com
Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls'' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that''s saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she''s trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank''s heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I''d been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank''s first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can''t stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I''m like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank''s ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls'' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank''s much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Banks''s debut short story collection about the mixed-up dating life of Jane Rosenal was a hit on the beach-reading circuit this summer. Hearing the author''s conviction while she reads her work proves why: there is an uncanny likeness between the writer and her feisty-but-neurotic heroine. Banks plays up this mood by narrating in a quiet, seductive voiceAone that nonetheless manages to convey a sense of sustained desperation. The episodes move chronologically, starting with Jane''s girl''s-eye view of her older brother, Henry, in bumbling action as he dates an older, more sophisticated woman. At age 16, Jane moves in with a great-aunt in her Manhattan apartment, then sees the world through her host''s jaded eyes. Later, as a lowly assistant in publishing, she is seduced by an older editor, a super-macho alcoholic who suffers impotence. Banks''s gifts of distanced objectivityAas author and readerAdovetail here with stylish panache. Based on the 1999 Viking hardcover. (Aug.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
After Bridget Jones, expect lots on being single. This one by a Nelson Algren Award winner features reluctant career girl Jane, who''s reading the wrong selfhelp guide to getting married.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The New York Times Book Review, Courtney Weaver
She is clearly a skillful writer, which makes Girl''s Guide, her first book, disappointing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
...[a] charming, funny collection of seven linked fictions... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From AudioFile
Melissa Bank''s humor and intelligence come across clearly in both the text and her performance of this audiobook. Once it''s understood that the title is not to be taken literally (this is apparent with the first sentence), listeners are taken on an insightful journey into the early influences of a smart young woman. As Jane Rosenal becomes an adult, audiences see her life choices mirror those influences quite organically and with sharp-tongued wit. Banks has a great package with this audio presentation. Her voice lends itself naturally to her writing, and her own life wisdom is obvious in the aplomb with which she creates Jane''s world. R.A.P. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A smart, ruefully funny chronicle of a modern young womans search for love. When we meet Jane Rosenal, shes a wisecracking 14-year-old whose sassy wit keeps the world at bay but also gets the attention of her affectionate yet slightly distant parents. First-novelist Bank creates a dead-on teenage voice from her opening lines, making protagonist Jane both mildly obnoxious and appealingly vulnerable as she relates her efforts to decipher what went wrong between her older brother, Henry, and his upper-crust girlfriend, Julia. In subsequent chapters, the author skillfully allows Janes narration to evolve as the young girl struggles toward maturity and Mr. Right. When she gets an entry-level job in publishing and becomes involved with a much older editor, Archie Knox, Banks insightfully nuanced portrait shows Archie helping Jane grow professionallyparticularly by guiding her through the treacherous office currents created by a boss subtly determined to keep her downwhile keeping a firm upper hand emotionally. When her father reveals he has leukemia, the reserve between parent and child is breached, and the support Jane finds enables her to leave Archie. The final segment wickedly spoofs The Rules and other manipulative man-hunting guides as Jane nearly scares off her Prince Charming by behaving in ways completely alien to her open, candid nature; the satire wears thin after a time, but the finales warmth all but makes up for it. The novel takes the currently fashionable form of freestanding chapters that read like short stories that just happen to be about the same character. Two of thema first-person vignette by someone other than Jane; an odd second-person account of breast cancer and an excessively devoted boyfrienddont really fit in, but otherwise Banks debut is a model of well-crafted narrative building to a thoughtful, hopeful conclusion. Bank has created a delightful heroine who deserves her happy endingeven though any reader who has really been paying attention to the sharp, unsentimental details knows that all happy endings are provisional. (First serial to Cosmopolitan & Zoetrope; Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection; author tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Wall Street Journal
As hilarious as the Girls’ Guide is, there’s a wise, serious core here that distinguishes Ms. Bank. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
As hilarious as the Girls’ Guide is, there’s a wise, serious core here that distinguishes Ms. Bank. (The Wall Street Journal) Believe the hype: Jane’s touching (but unsentimental) career and love trials ring true. (Glamour) [A] swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships… (Entertainment Weekly) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Entertainment Weekly
[A] swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships… --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
