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American housewife : stories  Cover Image Book Book

American housewife : stories / Helen Ellis.

Ellis, Helen, (author.).

Summary:

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 twelve 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. --Publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385541039
  • ISBN: 0385541031
  • Physical Description: 188 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
What I do all day -- The wainscoting war -- Dumpster diving with the stars -- Southern lady code -- Hello! Welcome to the book club -- The fitter -- How to be a grown-ass lady -- How to be a patron of the arts -- Dead doormen -- Pageant protection -- Take it from cats -- My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax.
Subject: Women > Fiction.
Femininity > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Short stories, American.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Independence Branch ELLIS H (Text) 33126020405936 Core Collection Available -


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