Penguin The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing.

by Melissa Bank

Penguin The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing ABISBOOK Penguin.

Paperback

About the author

Melissa Bank was an American author. She published two books, "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a volume of short stories, and "The Wonder Spot," a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

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Reviews

[Billy Elias · Rating 5 out of 5]

perfect book. witty and touching. will be reading her other book.

[Belinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant.

It’s good to see that 25 years ago people had as messed up a love life as I thought I had. Full of lots of funny smart one liners in the typical New York style.

I actually found the first 2/3rds of the book quite sad but the last 50 pages were hilarious.

I’m of an age that I remember the atrocious ‘The Rules’ book from the 1990’s and to my shame I read it and wondered if it was real and whether I should implement it. When the ghosts of Faith and Bonnie ( the authors of the book) turn up to give her love life advice that she fights against I laughed a lot. This could have been me.

Recommended by Rebecca Sparrow from Birds of a Feather bookclub. My edition had a very thoughtful foreword by nick hornby. I agree there was so much derision and condescension in the term ‘chick lit’ in the 1990’s. It’s actually really hard to write comedy well!

[Alexis Dimmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Witty, raw and compelling without crazy drama. Thoroughly enjoyed this and made me feel all the emotions. So sad it’s over. Immediately ordered another book form this author. The fastest I’ve ever read a book. 😂

[ebigeyl · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to know if melissa bank was friends with laurie colwin. i want to write just like them. i devoured this book in about 5 hours—a new favorite. also beautiful introduction by nick hornsby, it made me cry in the bookshop.

staff rec blurb, sept 25: It’s clear why Girls’ Guide is often called a handbook for women in their 20s. Follow Jane Rosenal as she falls in love and loses it, lands a dream job then blows it off, cares for and copes with her father’s cancer. Witty, keenly observant, and poetic, this is a great pick for fans of Laurie Colwin novels or Greta Gerwig as Frances Ha.

[Lauren Lauterhahn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when it debuted 25 years ago, I was 21 years old and I decided I was going to get back into reading again. I loved this book. I love this book so much I’ve probably read it 10 times over the last 25 years. This most recent reread hit me in a different way cause I’m now older than the protagonist, Jane, who I love so much. She feels like an old friend at this point.

I remember when Melissa Banks second novel came out. I was so excited to finally read something new from her, it was a novel called the wonder spot and I can’t even describe my dismay when the very last chapter of the book, I was waiting to know how this book would end, the last chapter was actually a short story that she had published years earlier with Nick Hornby. So I already knew the end, I was so pissed! And I’ve been waiting and waiting for years for her to write a third book and upon the release of this 25th anniversary edition I learned that she died of cancer several years ago. I hope she’s resting in peace.

The middle story about the family that has nothing to do with anything I always skip. There’s just no point. Everything else is exactly the point. This is such a delightful book.

[Danny Brainerd · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars!

[willa · Rating 5 out of 5]

everything that i want out of a book, what the idiot could have been if it had flow