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Games and Rituals: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Katherine HeinyPublish date:2024-03-05Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Alfred A. KnopfISBN-13:9780593082737ISBN-10:593082737UPC:9780593082737Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Women, HumorousSize:8.58 x 5.12 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCN88PHJRT
The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love--friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts--in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.

"Superb... Pointed, satirical, emotionally ruthless."
--The Times

The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender: In "Bridesmaid, Revisited," Marlee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In "Twist and Shout," Erica's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In "Turn Back, Turn Back," a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in "561," Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. ("It's like you're North Korea and South Korea . . . But would North Korea help South Korea move?")

Katherine Heiny, one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, running late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, has delivered a collection of glorious humour and immense kindness.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Alfred A. KnopfISBN-13:9780593082737ISBN-10:593082737UPC:9780593082737Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Women, HumorousSize:8.58 x 5.12 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCN88PHJRT
KATHERINE HEINY is the author of Early Morning Riser, Standard Deviation, and Single, Carefree, Mellow, and her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and many other magazines. She has lived in London, The Hague, and Boyne City, Michigan, and now lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and children.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

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