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This Is Not Chick Lit

✍ Scribed by Merrick, Elizabeth

Book ID
110495712
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
562 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781588365699

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming.
This Is Not Chick Lit is a celebration of America's most dynamic literary voices, as well as a much needed reminder that, for every stock protagonist with a designer handbag and three boyfriends, there is a woman writer pushing the envelope of literary fiction with imagination, humor, and depth.
The original short stories in this collection touch on some of the same themes as chick lit–the search for love and identity–but they do so with extraordinary power, creativity, and range; they are also political, provocative, and, at turns, utterly surprising. Featuring marquee names as well as burgeoning talents, This Is Not Chick Lit will nourish your heart, and your mind.
Including these original stories:
"The...

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