- Humorous stories, Fiction, Department stores, Young women
"Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."" "Slightly lost, slightly off-kilter, very shy, Mirabelle charms because of all that she is not: not glamorous, not aggressive, not self-aggrandizing.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Steve Martin
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 130
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Wheeler, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781401308278
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