About this title: This series of interconnected stories--which describe often-poignant situations in the snarky narrative voice of Jane Rosenal--follows Jane through her young life. The first story begins with Jane as a wise-beyond-her-years 14-year old. In subsequent stories, she copes with a series of Mr. Wrongs, an affair with a much older man, the death of her beloved father from cancer, and her doomed career in publishing. When THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING was first published, in 1999, it was a huge bestseller as well as a critical success; it was perhaps the book that ushered in the now highly ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 06/1999
ISBN-13:9780670883004ISBN:067088300X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 06/1999
ISBN-13:9780670883004ISBN:067088300X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 06/1999
ISBN-13:9780670883004ISBN:067088300X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 06/1999
ISBN-13:9780670883004ISBN:067088300X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 06/1999
ISBN-13:9780670883004ISBN:067088300X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 06/1999
ISBN-13:9780670883004ISBN:067088300X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
"From library catalog - Single woman Jane Rosenal takes to the self-help shelves in search of information on how to find and manage a love relationship, but discovers, after a few mishaps, that she must make her own rules.
Enjoyable and interesting book, although I cannot relate to Jane's love pitfalls! Will be of more interest to adults than high schoolers.
Review from Booklist: Jane, the precocious teenager of this novel, easily recognizes the difference between summers in Nantucket and those on a greasy canal on the South Jersey shore, where her family is now relegated. Figuring out the mysteries of love is harder, as Jane closely follows her older brother's affair with an older woman. When that romance ends, Jane understands love even less. As an adult, Jane steps in and out of love's minefields without grasping how to avoid them. A bizarre trip with her lover, Jamie, and his ex-girlfriend and her new husband clarifies the pitfalls in that relationship. She dumps Jamie for the much older alcoholic editor Archie. Their on-again, off-again affair takes her through the traumas of her father's death and a less than stellar stint in book publishing. After she frees herself from both the dependent Archie and her noncareer, Jane decides to explore love yet again. This time, not trusting her own wisdom, she picks up a guidebook, How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right. The book's authors, Faith and Bonnie, view men as fish that first have to be lured with bait and then reeled in. They say such things as, "Don't be negative" and "Let him pay." She meets (or baits) Robert at a wedding, where she catches the well-aimed bouquet. Jane goes "by the book" and does all the "right" things with all the wrong results. (Why won't she heed her mother's advice to "just be yourself" ?) Often funny, poignant, and well sprinkled with razor-sharp wit, Jane's search for love (usually in all the wrong places) is going to be familiar to many. (Reviewed March 15, 1999)067088300XMarlene Chamberlain"
"A quick, light, Summer read. Quirky & fun, but nothing different then other books of this nature. Would rather read & recommend Bridget Jones then this book..."
"I had heard this book was a novel satirizing novels about women fixated on catching a man and the Finding and Keeping Mr. Right type self-help books. The last chapter came the closest to fitting this description and even that was predictable and poorly done. Perhaps I had wrong information and am judging this book too harshly because it wasn't what I was expecting when it was never intended to be that. All I know is that it was a struggle for me to finish this.
Overall, this read more like a collection of short stories than a novel, no real surprise since the publication info page indicates that many chapters previously appeared singly in various publications. All the stories were supposedly about the same main character but a couple of them just didn't seem to fit, there was no real connection to events in the other stories and the main character acted different enough to seem like a new person. None of the stories grabbed my attention and I never cared what happened to the main character in her many relationships. It was just another book about a whiny female who can't get her life together and all the relationships (romantic or otherwise) that she screws up or actually manages to get right. Not at all my kind of thing."
"One of my roommate's boyfriends told me that I needed to learn something about feminine mystique. He was probably right because I have never understood many things about women...like why some take so long in the bathroom, and why every time a driver is repeatedly running into the garage wall while backing out, it turns out to be a woman (why?). Sometimes I read books such as this in an effort to find feminine mystique.
Ths book is about a woman and the men she dates. The woman is on a postmodern search for a soulmate and she moves from one lover to the next. The main problem I have with this character is that her identity is largely defined by dating and the men she is dating although her rebellion against guides to dating is an attempt at making it seem like that is not the case. This book makes me wonder if the reason some women take so long in the bathroom is because they are so lost in the search for their own identity that they can't find their way out of the bathroom stall.
The high point of this book is that it reminded me of one of my best childhood friends. The low point was that it reminded me of why we stopped being friends."
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