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Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers
Random House
August 2006
On Sale: August 1, 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0812975677
EAN: 9780812975673
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Contemporary Women's Fiction | Fiction
New short stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Aimee
Bender • Judy Budnitz • Jennifer S. Davis • Jennifer Egan •
Carolyn Ferrell • Mary Gordon • Cristina Henríquez •
Samantha Hunt •Binnie Kirshenbaum • Dika Lam • Caitlin Macy
• Francine Prose • Holiday Reinhorn • Roxana Robinson •
Curtis Sittenfeld • Lynne Tillman • Martha Witt Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the
following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for
Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl
gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming. This Is Not Chick Lit is a celebration of America’s most
dynamic literary voices, as well as a much needed reminder
that, for every stock protagonist with a designer handbag
and three boyfriends, there is a woman writer pushing the
envelope of literary fiction with imagination, humor, and depth. The original short stories in this collection touch on some
of the same themes as chick lit–the search for love and
identity–but they do so with extraordinary power,
creativity, and range; they are also political, provocative,
and, at turns, utterly surprising. Featuring marquee names
as well as burgeoning talents, This Is Not Chick Lit will
nourish your heart, and your mind. “This Is Not Chick Lit is important not only for its
content, but for its title. I’ll know we’re getting
somewhere when equally talented male writers feel they have
to separate themselves from the endless stream of fiction
glorifying war, hunting and sports by naming an anthology
This Is Not a Guy Thing.”
–Gloria Steinem “These voices, diverse and almost eerily resonant, offer us
a refreshing breath of womanhood-untamed, ungroomed, and
unglossed.”–ELLE
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