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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100593082737
ISBN-139780593082737
eBay Product ID (ePID)14057242031
Product Key Features
Book TitleGames and Rituals : Stories
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicContemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Humorous / General
GenreFiction
AuthorKatherine Heiny
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-023592
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisThe 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.