The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is a 1999 collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14.
 First edition | |
| Author | Melissa Bank |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | short fiction, linked short story collection, coming of age |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 288 pp |
| ISBN | 0-670-88300-X |
| OCLC | 40159073 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3552.A487 G57 1999 |
The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing spent 16 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. It was a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier."[1] Newsweek critic Yahlin Chang wrote, "Bank draws exquisite portraits of loneliness, and she can do it in a sentence."[2] Others placed Bank in the school of restraint exemplified by Hemingway and Raymond Carver.[citation needed]
Stories
edit- "Advanced Beginners"
- "The Floating House"
- "My Old Man"
- "The Best Possible Light"
- "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine"
- "You Could Be Anyone"
- "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing"
Adaptations
editTwo films are based on part or all of this work:
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing — Francis Ford Coppola (who has the rights to the title and short story of that name) and American Zoetrope are developing a film which is adapted from the book's last short story.
- Suburban Girl (2008)
References
edit- ^ "The Best Books of 1999: The Best Fiction of 1999", Los Angeles Times (Dec. 5, 1999).
- ^ Chang, Yahlin. "A Hot Young Writer You Can Bank On", Newsweek (May 31, 1999).
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