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Games and Rituals: Stories
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ISBN10: 0593082737
ISBN13: 9780593082737
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.12 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593082737
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.12 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love--friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts--in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime. Includes Chicken-Flavored and Lemon-Scented, which served as inspiration for the CBS Original comedy series DMV Superb... Pointed, satirical, emotionally ruthless.
--The Times The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender: In Bridesmaid, Revisited, Marlee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In Twist and Shout, Erica's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In Turn Back, Turn Back, a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in 561, Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. (It's like you're North Korea and South Korea . . . But would North Korea help South Korea move?) Katherine Heiny, one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, running late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, has delivered a collection of glorious humour and immense kindness.
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