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Games and Rituals : Stories by Katherine Heiny (2024, Trade Paperback)

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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.

LC Classification NumberPS3608.E3823G36 2023