num_pages: 263
description: Emily Perkins captures perfectly the intense world of love, art and waitressing in this debut collection of short stories. She brings modern life into harsh and comic focus with a cinematic vision for character and dialogue and a cast of young and painfully vulnerable metropolitans.'A stunning first collection: addictive, smart, scary, wise and profoundly funny. Perkins has the enviable Alice Munro knack of crafting tiny stories with the scope of novels, characters who convince within a paragraph, dialogue which stings with its unresolved sadness and comfortless truths' Julie Myerson
language: English
title: Not Her Real Name
titlecomplete: Not Her Real Name
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 203
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: Best First Book, Fiction (Montana NZ Awards)
publisher: Picador