The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Melissa Bank
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: New York City and environs
- Principal Characters: Jane Rosenal, Henry Rosenal, Jamie, Archie Knox, Faith Kurtz-Abromowitz, Bonnie Merrill, Robert Wexler
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, New York City, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, 1990’s, Leukemia, Impotence
- Locales: New York, NY
Melissa Bank’s first novel, The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is composed of a series of related short stories that chronicle the romantic life of Jane Rosenal from the time she is fourteen until she is in her mid-thirties. Read together, they form a novel that presents the reader with a sharp look at love in the 1990’s and an introduction to the lively, perceptive voice of Jane, who narrates most of the stories. Particularly appealing is the fact that Jane never defines herself in terms of marriage (indeed, at the end of the novel, no marriage plans are in sight);...
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