description: Mirabelle works as a shop assistant in the glove department at Niemans, L.A.'s finest store; she also draws darkly gothic pictures at night. Adrift in the world and lonely, her situation is not improved by the fact that hardly anyone buys the kind of gloves that Niemans sell so she spends most of her day leaning on the counter staring into empty space. There are two men in her life - Jeremy, a man who stencils amplifiers for a living, and Mr Ray Porter, an older man and millionaire who applies logic to relationships, and is serially confused and disappointed. In this exquisitely self-contained novel, Steve Martin touches on the surface horrors of L.A. - the false noses, lips, breasts and people - without exaggeration or explicitly playing for laughs. It's insightful, dark, funny and tender Shopgirl is an incredibly strong piece of fiction.
language: English
title: Shopgirl
titlecomplete: Shopgirl
characters: Mirabelle Buttersfield, Jeremy Malory, Ray Porter
genres: Audiobook, Chick Lit, Novella, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 37907
places: Beverly Hills, California, California
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album
publisher: Phoenix Paperbacks