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Love is really, really difficult. And it's even harder if you're the last woman on earth.
The sketches in Simon Rich's new book are bizarre, funny, and even familiar. Exploring love's many complications and mortifications - losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it - Rich turns the ordinary into the absurd.
From the invisible man's compulsion to stalk his ex, Sherlock Holmes' only blind spot and how Darwin really formed his theory of evolution, The Last Girlfriend on Earth takes readers for an exhilarating, hilarious ride on the rollercoaster of love.
Praise for What In God's Name:
'Like Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rich drags heaven down to Earth ... owes much to The Simpsons and to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens' New York Times
'Hilarious and touching ... obviously Rich is crazy good at hysterical sharp dialogue ... What In God's Name reads like a screenplay for a film that might sit comfortably beside Woody Allen's early absurd works in a Netflix queue ... a clever, endearing novel' Entertainment Weekly
'Divinely funny' Vanity Fair
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Praise for What In God's Name (-)
One of the best American comic novels of the past few years ... deeply hilarious (NPR)
Deliciously funny (Kirkus)
Truly hilarious (Observer)
One of the funniest writers in America (Daily Beast)
The most enjoyable classroom comedy since Tom Perotta's Election (FT)
A collection of sweet stories full of whimsical, gently moving tales of love and loss, thwarted come-ons and doomed crushes... Put it in your pocket and take it out whenever you need a five minute break from the tedium of everyday. (Lynn Enright The Gloss 2013-01-01)
Most original and highly amusing. Rich manages to turn the banal into the absurd... hilarious and touching... and impossible to put down. A perfect cheer-up for the romantically challenged! (Rachel Glover Image 2013-01-01)
The Last Girlfriend On Earthis silly, surreal, sometimes sad and always laugh-out-loud funny. This collection will have you giggling/crying/squirming in recognition, and wondering what exactly Simon Rich has eaten to dream all this stuff up ... This collection pulls off the tough trick of being both heart-warming and hilarious -it's a must-read if you've ever so much as had a crush on someone (Heat 2013-02-02)
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One of the best American comic novels of the past few years ... deeply hilarious (NPR)
Deliciously funny (Kirkus)
Truly hilarious (Observer)
One of the funniest writers in America (Daily Beast)
Praise for Elliot Allagash -
'A winning comic formula ... Peppered with riotous teen angst - and effortlessly readable
The most enjoyable classroom comedy since Tom Perotta's Election (FT)
A collection of sweet stories full of whimsical, gently moving tales of love and loss, thwarted come-ons and doomed crushes... Put it in your pocket and take it out whenever you need a five minute break from the tedium of everyday. (Lynn Enright The Gloss 2013-01-01)
Most original and highly amusing. Rich manages to turn the banal into the absurd... hilarious and touching... and impossible to put down. A perfect cheer-up for the romantically challenged! (Rachel Glover Image 2013-01-01)
The Last Girlfriend On Earthis silly, surreal, sometimes sad and always laugh-out-loud funny. This collection will have you giggling/crying/squirming in recognition, and wondering what exactly Simon Rich has eaten to dream all this stuff up ... This collection pulls off the tough trick of being both heart-warming and hilarious -it's a must-read if you've ever so much as had a crush on someone (Heat 2013-02-02)
It doesn't matter if you're a robot, a caveman, or an alien from outer space: sooner or later, some girl's going to break your heart. And Simon Rich is going to write about it.
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 184668921X
- ISBN 13 9781846689215
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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