Spoiled brats
Subtitle: short stories
By: Simon Rich
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781781252833; 9781782830801
Subjects: Short stories; Amerikanisches Englisch; Erzählung
Work titles: Short Stories
Description: Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in 'The last girlfriend on earth', Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the talents of a five-year-old with horns and a taste for blood - to Sell Out, the story of Simon's ancestor, returned to life decades after an industrial accident involving pickling brine, these stories are inventive, witty and sometimes a bit too much like real life.
Table of contents: title: Animals; title: Gifted; title: Semester abroad; title: Sell out; title: Guy walks into a bar; title: Family business; title: The tribal rite of the Strombergs; title: Distractions; title: Played out; title: Rip; title: Elf on the shelf; title: Upper East Side ghosts; title: Big break.