Barbara the Slut and Other People

图书信息

作者	Lauren Holmes
出版社	Fourth Estate
ISBN	9780008123055
出版时间	2015-08-04
字数	24.5万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR, Bustle, Gawker, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Pure Wow, andPublisher's Weekly Holmes trains a precise lens on the millennial generation s mixed bag of manners, mores, and machinations In [these] beautifully brazen stories, worlds collide in fresh, imaginative ways. Elle A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human. Fearless, candid, and incredibly funny, Lauren Holmes is a newcomer who writes like a master. She tackles eros and intimacy with a deceptively light touch, a keen awareness of how their nervous systems tangle and sometimes short-circuit, and a genius for revealing our most vulnerable, spirited selves. In Desert Hearts, a woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. In Pearl and the Swiss Guy Fall in Love, a woman realizes she much prefers the company of her pit bull and herself to the neurotic foreign fling who won t decamp from her apartment. In How Am I Supposed to Talk to You? a daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico for her flighty, estranged mother to resell there, wondering whether her personal mission to come out is worth the same effort. And in Barbara the Slut, a young woman with an autistic brother, a Princeton acceptance letter, and a love of sex navigates her high school s toxic, slut-shaming culture with open eyes. With heart, sass, and pitch-perfect characters, Barbara the Slut is a head-turning debut from a writer with a limitless career before her."

目录

Copyright

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO TALK TO YOU?

WEEKEND WITH BETH, KELLY, MUSCLE, AND PAMMY

MIKE ANONYMOUS

I WILL CRAWL TO RALEIGH IF I HAVE TO

DESERT HEARTS

PEARL AND THE SWISS GUY FALL IN LOVE

NEW GIRLS

MY HUMANS

JERKS

BARBARA THE SLUT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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