The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is a 1999 collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14.

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First edition
Author	Melissa Bank
Language	English
Genre	short fiction, linked short story collection, coming of age
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	1999
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	288 pp
ISBN	0-670-88300-X
OCLC	40159073
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3552.A487 G57 1999
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing spent 16 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. It was a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier."^[1] Newsweek critic Yahlin Chang wrote, "Bank draws exquisite portraits of loneliness, and she can do it in a sentence."^[2] Others placed Bank in the school of restraint exemplified by Hemingway and Raymond Carver.^{[citation needed]}

1. ^ "The Best Books of 1999: The Best Fiction of 1999", Los Angeles Times (Dec. 5, 1999).
2. ^ Chang, Yahlin. "A Hot Young Writer You Can Bank On", Newsweek (May 31, 1999).

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