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1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) |
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What I do all day -- The wainscoting war -- Dumpster diving with the stars -- Southern lady code -- Hello! Welcome to the book club -- The fitter -- How to be a grown-ass lady -- How to be a patron of the arts -- Dead doormen -- Pageant protection -- Take it from cats -- My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax. |
| Summary |
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. |
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A collection of stories featuring conventional, if ruthless, housewives features a rigged reality television show, a unique book club initiation ritual, and the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. |
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What I do all day -- The wainscoting war -- Dumpster diving with the stars -- Southern lady code -- Hello! Welcome to the book club -- The fitter -- How to be a grown-ass lady -- How to be a patron of the arts -- Dead doormen -- Pageant protection -- Take it from the cats -- My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Women -- Fiction.
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Femininity -- Fiction.
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Revenge -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Overdrive -- Ebook.
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Overdrive -- Ebook -- Adult -- Fiction.
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Femininity. |
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Revenge. |
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Short stories, American. |
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Women. |
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Short stories.
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Downloadable books.
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Electronic books. |
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Short stories.
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Ellis, Helen.
What I do all day.
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Ellis, Helen.
Wainscoting war.
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Ellis, Helen.
Dumpster diving with the stars.
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Ellis, Helen.
Essays. Selections.
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Ellis, Helen.
Hello! Welcome to the book club.
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Ellis, Helen.
Fitter.
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Ellis, Helen.
How to be a grown-ass lady.
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Ellis, Helen.
How to be a patron of the arts.
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Ellis, Helen.
Dead doormen.
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Ellis, Helen.
Pageant protection.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Ellis, Helen. American housewife New York : Doubleday, [2016] 9780385541039 (DLC) 2015021779 (OCoLC)910826896 |
| ISBN |
9780385541046 : $45.00 |
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038554104X : $45.00 |
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