Shopgirl
Author(s): Steve Martin
Mirabelle works as a shop assistant in the glove department at Niemans, L.A.'s finest store; she also draws darkly gothic pictures at night. Adrift in the world and lonely, her situation is not improved by the fact that hardly anyone buys the kind of gloves that Niemans sell so she spends most of her day leaning on the counter staring into empty space. There are two men in her life - Jeremy, a man who stencils amplifiers for a living, and Mr Ray Porter, an older man and millionaire who applies logic to relationships, and is serially confused and disappointed.
In this exquisitely self-contained novel, Steve Martin touches on the surface horrors of L.A. - the false noses, lips, breasts and people - without exaggeration or explicitly playing for laughs. Shopgirl is an incredibly strong piece of fiction; insightful, dark, funny, and tender.
Product Information
Steve Martin's films are always a media event. Directed by Anand Tucker, the producer of Girl with a Pearl Earring Shopgirl is already a New York Times bestseller; over 50,000 copies sold in Phoenix paperback so far The Pleasure of my Company (novel) and Pure Drivel (essays) also available as Phoenix mmps 'Tender and moving, this is a portrait of generosity and truth lost in a sea of artificiality and instant gratification, which nonetheless accommodates the moments of comedy that are Martin's hallmark' Literary Review 'A moving, funny fable' Vogue 'Small, deft, pensive, poignant - a moving still life' Time
'Is there no end to Steve Martin's talents? ... he has shown himself in recent years to be an accomplished writer, not least with this slickly written short novel... Martin's writing has real charm.' -- Christina Koning THE TIMES
Steve Martin is a successful actor and writer.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.147
- : 08 December 2005
- : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Steve Martin
- : Paperback
- : Film tie-in edition
- : 813.54
- : 176
