Reasons to be cheerful / Nina Stibbe.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019Edition: First United States editionDescription: viii, 279 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316309370
- 0316309370
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Main Library | Fiction | Stibbe, Nina | Available | 33111009683117 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From "the reliably hilarious" ( Entertainment Weekly ) author of Love, Nina : a brilliantly funny and heartbreaking story of growing up and finding the independence you might not actually want . . .
Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But, if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching), strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo) or self-respect (surely only actual athletes get fungal foot infections?) she's still got a lot more growing up to do.
The winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, Reasons to Be Cheerful is a novel that lives up to its title, confirming Nina Stibbe's status as one of the most original and delightful writers at work today.
Taking a job as an assistant to an eccentric dental surgeon, eighteen-year-old Lizzie pursues a fantasy relationship with her crush before realizing that he is not quite as imagined.
Lizzie Vogel lands a job in a local dentist's office after answering a classified ad. The job comes with an apartment of her own, as well as an eccentric boss, a high-strung coworker, and the occasional call to perform light dentistry herself. It also provides Lizzie with an introduction to Andy Nicolello: handsome, kind, slightly indifferent. Lizzie begins calling him her boyfriend as she begins navigating the waters of adult life. -- adapted from jacket