- Fiction, short stories (single author), American fiction
"Fiction. Winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, chosen Ben Marcus. In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs.
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Contemporary, prestige, bleak and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Alissa Nutting
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio, Dzanc Books, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062699855
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