Shopgirl
A highly acclaimed L.A. fable by one of Hollywood's greatest comics
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:7th Dec '23
£9.99
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'A delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl' Richard Corliss
Mirabelle Buttersfield spends her days selling expensive evening gloves in Beverly Hills' finest store, and her nights watching television and drawing darkly gothic pictures.
Adrift in the world and lonely, she has few customers, so spends most of her time leaning on the counter staring into space. But then two men enter her life: Jeremy, a roadie for a band, and Mr Ray Porter, a middle-aged millionaire who invites her out to dinner.
Funny, tender, and insightful, Shop Girl is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of LA's false noses and falser people - from one of our best loved comic writers.
Wryly omniscient, ruthlessly truthful, [Martin] calls to mind Austen with an up-to-date, masculine spin * VOGUE *
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 * THE TIMES *
It's the signature combination of exhilaration and vulnerability that Martin offers us with extraordinary confidence * ELLE *
Shopgirl is an Audrey Hepburn of a book: slim, lovely, and ever so old-fashioned * PEOPLE *
Shopgirl has some of Chekhov's autumn light about it: a story remembering all the really fine recent things * TALK *
His prose is almost Zen-like and his revelations superb * NEW YORK POST *
The book is like one of Mirabelle's sketches: small, deft, pensive, poignant - a moving still life * TIME magazine *
A tender love story * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY *
A delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl -- Richard Corliss
Shopgirl reads as smoothly and pleasurably as the novels of the late W.M. Spackman * LA TIMES *
It's the signature combination of exhilaration and vulnerability that Martin offers us with extraordinary confidence * ELLE *
Wryly omniscient, ruthlessly truthful, [Martin] calls to mind Austen with an up-to-date, masculine spin * VOGUE *
Shopgirl is an Audrey Hepburn of a book: slim, lovely, and ever so old-fashioned * PEOPLE *
Shopgirl has some of Chekhov's autumn light about it: a story remembering all the really fine recent things * TALK *
His prose is almost Zen-like and his revelations superb * NEW YORK POST *
The book is like one of Mirabelle's sketches: small, deft, pensive, poignant -- a moving still life * TIME magazine *
A tender love story * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY *
A delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl -- Richard Corliss
Shopgirl reads as smoothly and pleasurably as the novels of the late W.M. Spackman * LA TIMES *
ISBN: 9781399617529
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
128 pages