| AENEROUS-HEARTED,SMARTLY COMIC, and wickedly insightful, The Girls Guide to Huntingand Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal asshe sets out on a personal and spirited expeditionthrough the perilous terrain of sex, love, relation-ships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace.What is love, she wonders, as she scrutinizes thewiles and ways of older, possibly wiser women; castsa questioning eye toward various species of couples;and holds out hey wrists for a spritz of perfumefrom her beautiful boss How do you find it(and keep it)--and above all, who makes the rules?IN THE THROES OF A BUDDING ROMANCE, Jane repairs to the self-help shelves to take a sojournwith authors Bouncy Bonnie and Blown-Dry Faith,who whisper in her ear and tell her what the rulesare--in their terms. "Wear your hair long... Don t say7 loveyou first... Don t accept a date less than four daysin advance..." and above all, "Don t be funny!. . .Men like femininity, " Faith says, crossing her legs."Humor isn t feminine . . . "WHEN SHE IS SWEET OFF HER FEET by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque world ofcocktail parties, country houses, and rules-that-were-made-to-be-broken, Jane learns what it meanswhen her lover says he wants "to everything" withher, and the stakes become far too high. |
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