Always happy hour : stories / Mary Miller.

Description:
244 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher:
New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
Copyright:
©2017
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- ISBN: 9781631492181
- ISBN: 1631492187
- Edition: First Edition.
Contents: | Instructions -- The house on Main Street -- Proper order -- At one time this was the longest covered walkway in the world -- Big bad love -- Uphill -- Dirty -- He says I am a little oven -- Where all of the beautiful people go -- Love apples -- Hamilton pool -- Always happy hour -- Little bear -- First class -- Charts -- The 37. |
Summary: | "Acerbic and ruefully funny, [this book] weaves tales of young women-- deeply flawed and intensely real-- who struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage-- whether it's a string of horrible exes, a boyfriend with an annoying child, or an inability to be genuinely happy for a best friend-- they are united in their unrelenting suspicion that they deserve better. These women seek understanding in the most unlikely places: a dilapidated foster home where love is a liability in "Big Bad Love," a trailer park littered with a string of bad decisions in "Uphill," and the unfamiliar corners of a dream home purchased with the winnings of a bitter divorce settlement in "Charts." Taking a microscope to delicate patterns of love and intimacy, Miller evokes the reticent love among the misunderstood, the gritty comfort in bad habits that can't be broken, and the beat-by-beat minutiae of fated relationships."--Amazon.com |
Subject: |
Young women
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Fiction.
Short stories, American. |
Genre: |
Short stories. Domestic fiction. |
Citation:
Miller, Mary.
"Always happy hour : stories."
New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
2017.