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American housewife : stories
Title:
American housewife : stories
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
ISBN:
9780385541039
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xi, 188 pages ; 20 cm
Contents:
What I do all day --The wainscoting war --Dumpster diving with the stars --Southern lady code --Hello! Welcome to the book club --The fitter --How to be a grown-ass lady --How to be a patron of the arts --Dead doormen --Pageant protection --Take it from cats --My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax.
Summary:
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood.
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