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Amazonaws.com's Price: $12.02
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Fabric Type: 9780140278828
Fax Number: First Edition
Legal Disclaimer: 0140278826
Maximum Color Depth: Penguin Books Ltd
Metal Type: Penguin Books Ltd
Region Code: 304
Total External Bays Free: May 25, 2000
Total Firewire Ports: Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried
Product Description:
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.
Average Rating: 
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After hearing raves about this book, I expected a lot of it and it didn't exactly deliver - it didn't blow my mind. However, I do think that, with multiple readings, I will unearth more meaning and life lessons from the stories. The novel was very clever and fun to read. Melissa Banks is a wonderful writer and I sped through the book in two days. I loved the story's realism, although I did find it a little depressing overall (especially Jane's relationship with Archie), despite the simplistic "happy ... Read More
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I enjoyed Melissa Bank's book. As other reviewers have noted, this is essentially a collection of short stories, but, for the most part, there is a focus to the stories: the life of the narrator Jane Rosenal, and her dealings with love. Hemingway did something similar in his In Our Time stories, where many stories focused on the character of Nick Adams, but Bank does it better precisely because she is more focused (almost every story is about Jane, from Jane's point of view, and follows a time order, ... Read More
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This book absolutely fit my bill for fun, light reading. I found Girls' Guide while on vacation in Hawaii -- it was left behind in our condo. Being a hunter and a fisher, myself, I was curious, and started skimming the pages. I soon discovered that the book had nothing to do with literal hunting and fishing, thankfully, but entertaining life experiences of a quirky, cheeky character named Jane. I was hooked on Jane's wit, and I finished the book within a couple days (which speaks volumes considering ... Read More
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I read this novel a couple of years ago and recently re-read the book. As expected I was not able to put it down.
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At first, THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING seemed like a mildly amusing collection of loosely connected stories. We have young Jane Rosenal watching her older brother make hash of his romance and then later Jane making her own hashes, first with the worthless Jamie and then with the much older Archie. It was poignant and comic only insofar that the reader had the illusion of superiority over Jane. I did notice little one line off-the-cuff things that would go off like bombshells in the brain later. ... Read More
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