- Love stories, American, Fiction, Social life and customs, Young women
After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Melissa Bank
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Chivers Press, Thorndike Press, Heyne Hörbuch, Mchn.
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780241990094
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Melissa Susan Bank (October 11, 1960 – August 2, 2022) was an American author. She published two books—*The Wonder Spot,* a volume of short stories, and *The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing*—and won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught at Stony Brook University.
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