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Author Ellis, Helen, author

Title American housewife : stories / Helen Ellis
Published London : Scribner, 2016
London Scribner, 2016

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Description xi, 188 pages ; 22 cm
Contents 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 smoke their eyes and paint their lips. They channel Beyonce while doing household chores. They drown their sorrows with Chanel No. 5 and host book clubs where chardonnay trumps Charles Dickens. They redecorate. And they are quietly capable of kidnapping, breaking and entering, and murder. These women know the rules of a well-lived life: replace your tights every winter, listen to erotic audio books while you scrub the bathroom floor, serve what you want to eat at your dinner parties, and accept it: you're too old to have more than one drink and sleep through the night. Vicious, fresh and darkly hilarious, American Housewife is a collection of stories for anyone who has ever wondered what really goes on behind the facades of the housewives of America.
Subject Women -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Housewives -- Fiction.
Femininity -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Fiction.
Reading nook.
ISBN 9781471153792
Other Titles Short stories. Selections