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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
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Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing dazzled and delighted readers and topped bestseller lists nationwide. Now, in anticipation of her upcoming new work of fiction, The Wonder Spot , Penguin is publishing Melissa Bank’s... read more

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  • “He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.”
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  • “Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses,” she said. “What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”
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  • “Coleridge said that happiness is just a dog sunning itself on a rock. We’re not put on this earth to be happy. We’re here to experience great things.”
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  • It’s you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip—which means letting go of him.
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  • You can feel that he wants to own you—not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
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  • The only relationships I haven’t wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
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  • Oliver Biddle was who you became if you couldn’t find anyone to love except your parents.
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  • You sense that he’s dangerous but don’t know why—and wonder if it’s because he makes you feel safer than you’ve ever felt.
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  • “Making jokes is your way of saying Do you love me? and when someone laughs you think they’ve said yes.”
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  • At Caffè Vivaldi, Archie asked me if I knew Dante’s definition of hell. I sipped my cappuccino. “Give me a minute,” I said. “Proximity without intimacy,” he said.
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  • The only way for a woman, as for a man, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.   —From The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
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My brother's first serious girlfriend was eight years older--twenty-eight to his twenty

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1. Advanced Beginners
2. The Floating House
3. My Old Man
4. The Best Possible Light
5. The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine
6. You Could Be Anyone
7. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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This book is in Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition Book Covers. (community list)

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  1. Melissa Bank (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Page Count: 288

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  • Suburban Girl (IMDb): 2007 film based on a few stories from this collection starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin.

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