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American Housewife: Stories - Kathleen McInerney, Helen Ellis, Lisa Cordileone, Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Rebecca Lowman
American Housewife: Stories
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A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason-Dixon line. Meet the women of American Housewife: They wear lipstick,... show more
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason-Dixon line. Meet the women of American Housewife: They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These 12 irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B01995G5BO
Publisher: Random House Audio
Minutes: 136
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor
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fromfirstpagetolast
fromfirstpagetolast rated it
This is a short story collection revolving around the theme of housewives, as the title suggests. Some of these are 30 pages long, others only two but each take the theme and deal with it in a different way. As with all short story collections there were some I preferred over others. There were so...
learn by going
learn by going rated it
4.5 American Housewife, by Helen Ellis
My first thoroughly enjoyable read of the year. Despite never having been a housewife (or wife, period) myself, I felt like this short story collection's ideal audience. There are plenty of films and books that cover similar ground--the details, drudgery, absurdity, and even darkness of being a hous...
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it
3.5 American Housewife Review
I grab almost every audio available to me and prefer to go in blind when I can. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t and I end up with nightmares (I’m pointing at you, Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates). When I started American Housewife I had some vague memory of someone somewhere saying it ...
debbiekrenzer
debbiekrenzer rated it
#AmericanHousewife 4 Stars! Available 1/12/16 @Helen_Ellis @Doubledaypub HA! This was a rather short book, but by the time I got done reading and laughing, it took me longer than one would think. There were some very funny moments in some of these short stories.The Book Club was absolutely friggi...
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