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The Wonder Spot

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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Beautifully written and very funny. . . as with Salinger and Carver, there is crystalline simplicity to Bank's prose

I read the first chapter and thought, 'Wait, I know this girl' . . . I realized she was my friend . . . she made me laugh, she made me weep, and when I closed the book at the end of the day, I knew I'd never forget her

A smart, ruefully funny chronicle of a modern young woman's search for love . . . a model of well-crafted narrative building to a thoughtful, hopeful conclusion. Bank has created a delightful heroine who deserves her happy ending-even though any reader who has really been paying attention to the sharp, unsentimental details knows that all happy endings are provisional

One marvels at Bank's assured control of her material, her witty, distinctive voice and her ability to find comedy, pathos and drama in ordinary lives . . . phenomenally good

This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd

As hilarious as Girls' Guide is, there's a wise, serious core here

A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read-thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember

Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier

One of the most beloved coming-of-age tales ever written, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing tells of Jane Rosenal and her spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. From cocktail parties to country houses, young love to older men, Jane’s experiences form an unforgettable, hilarious patchwork of contemporary romance. 
 
This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a insightful, poignant foreword by Nick Hornby.

‘Longevity is the only indicator of literature that really matters, and this book is built to last’ Nick Hornby 
 
One of the most beloved coming-of-age tales ever written, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing tells of Jane Rosenal and her spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. From cocktail parties to country houses, young love to older men, Jane’s experiences form an unforgettable, hilarious patchwork of contemporary romance. 
This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a insightful, poignant foreword by Nick Hornby. 
 
‘Beautifully written and very funny’ – Guardian

Melissa Bank is the author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction, and holds an MFA from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in Allure, Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Guardian, North American Review, O: the Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, Washington Post, Zoetrope and many others. Her books have been translated into 33 languages. She divides her time between New York City and East Hampton.

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