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Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thought.
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Comic, character-led, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Samantha Irby
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Vintage, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571359264
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Samantha Irby is an American comedian, writer and actor.
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