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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: selfie as big as the Ritz
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Williams, Lara
    name part: (Writer of Treats)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Short stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 196 pages ; 19 cm
  abstract: ""A dark wonder. An often harrowing (and in parts, very, very funny) debut, it targets the unfathomable nonsense of relationships, work and modern living with a keen eye, head-spinning wordplay and enough compassion to crush your heart. Buy it for everyone you know." --The Skinny She finds herself single, twenty-nine, partially-employed, and about a half a stone overweight. Roller dexter of eligible friends rattling thin. Thirties breathing down her neck like an inappropriate uncle. She jogs. Looks good in turquoise. Finds herself punctuating gas "better out than in!" patting her stomach like a department store Santa. This is who I am, she thinks. The women in Lara Williams' debut story collection, A Selfie as Big as the Ritz, navigate the tumultuous interval between early twenties and middle age. In the title story, a relationship implodes against the romantic backdrop of Paris. In "One of Those Life Things," a young woman struggles to say the right thing at her best friend's abortion. In "Penguins," a girlfriend tries to accept her boyfriend's bizarre sexual fantasy. In "Treats," a single woman comes to terms with her loneliness. As Williams' characters attempt to lean in, fall in love, hold together a family, fend off loneliness, and build a meaningful life, we see them alternating between expectation and resignation, giddiness and melancholy, the rollercoaster we all find ourselves on"--
  note: Lara Williams.
  subject:
    topic: Relationships
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6123.I55254 A6 2017
  classification: 823/.92
  identifier: 9781250126627
  identifier: 1250126622
  identifier: 2017025683
  record info:
    record content source: LNC
    record creation date: 170609
    record change date: 20180430074821.0
    record identifier: in00003897007
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng