American housewife
By: Helen Ellis
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Editions de la Martiniére
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780385541039; 9781101970997
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster,American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood. --Publisher
Table of contents: title: What I do all day; title: The wainscoting war; title: Dumpster diving with the stars; title: Southern lady code; title: Hello! Welcome to the book club; title: The fitter; title: How to be a grown-ass lady; title: How to be a patron of the arts; title: Dead doormen; title: Pageant protection; title: Take it from cats; title: My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax.