Shopgirl

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Paperback
2001
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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. It's insightful, dark, funny and tender Shopgirl is an incredibly strong piece of fiction.

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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. It's insightful, dark, funny and tender Shopgirl is an incredibly strong piece of fiction.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 21 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 0753812835
ISBN 13: 9780753812839
Book Overview: Being made into a major film by Disney Reissue to coincide with new hardback - The Pleasure of my Company (Weidenfeld) - as well as a new collection of Steve Martin's writing, Pure Drivel (Phoenix) Steve Martin's fame goes before him - he is already internationally recognised as one of the greatest of the modern comic actors - (Roxanne, Father of the Bride, Parenthood, The Man with Two Brains, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid) Shopgirl has already sold over 50,000 in paperback and was a New York Times bestseller '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

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Steve Martin is a successful actor and writer.

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