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Always Happy Hour: Stories

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Description for Always Happy Hour: Stories Hardback. "I adore Mary Miller's stories and you will too. Read this book and then read her others. Like, now." -Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
Combining hard-edged prose and savage Southern charm, Mary Miller showcases biting contemporary talent at its best. Fast on the heels of her terrific (New York Times Book Review) debut novel, The Last Days of California, she now reaches new heights with this collection of shockingly relatable, ill-fated love stories. Acerbic and ruefully funny, Always Happy Hour weaves tales of young women-deeply flawed and intensely real-who struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage-whether it's a string of horrible exes, a boyfriend with an annoying child, or an inability to be genuinely happy for a best friend-they are united in their unrelenting suspicion that they deserve better. These women seek understanding in the most unlikely places: a dilapidated foster home where love is a liability in Big Bad Love, a trailer park littered with a string of bad decisions in Uphill, and the unfamiliar corners of a dream home purchased with the winnings of a bitter divorce settlement in Charts. Taking a microscope to delicate patterns of love and intimacy, Miller evokes the reticent love among the misunderstood, the gritty comfort in bad habits that can't be broken, and the beat-by-beat minutiae of fated relationships. Like an evening of drinking, Always Happy Hour is a comforting burn, warm and intoxicating in its brutal honesty. In an unforgettable style that distinguishes her within her generation, Miller once again captures womanhood in a raw...and heartbreaking way (Los Angeles Review of Books) and solidifies her essential role in American fiction.

Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631492181
SKU
V9781631492181
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About Mary Miller
Mary Miller is the author of The Last Days of California and the short story collection Big World. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction and John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Reviews for Always Happy Hour: Stories
Brutally honest, it is nevertheless a comforting read.
Five of the Best American Short Story Collections - Country & Town House

Goodreads reviews for Always Happy Hour: Stories


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