This Too Can Be Yours [Paperback]

Beth Lisick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2001

In this wholly unpredictable collection of tongue-in-chic short stories, Beth Lisick casts a cool eye on the lost and living dead of offices, nightclubs, shopping malls, and rent-controlled apartments. Pretentious web designers, reality show wannabes, and hipster party girls are among the characters populating a seemingly ordinary world teetering on the brink of chaos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Manic D Press, Inc. (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916397734
• ISBN-13: 978-0916397739
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,415,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beth Lisick's characters are hilarious!, November 5, 2001

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Bucky Sinister (Oakland CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Too Can Be Yours (Paperback)

This Too Can Be Yours is a collection of short stories with first person narratives that will crack you up. Lisick has grown past her first collection, Monkey Girl, into an even better writer.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Day Dorothy Parker, December 3, 2001

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Gentry M. Lane "stylist" (PARIS France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Too Can Be Yours (Paperback)

The only problem with Beth's writing is that there isn't nearly enough of it. With clever turns of phrase, laser-accurate (and sometimes scathing) insight, Lisick makes you laugh *and* makes you think. A sardonic savant and master of wit, Lisick is a modern-day Dorothy Parker. (And she's really cute, too).

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Total Entertainment, December 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: This Too Can Be Yours (Paperback)

Beth Lisick's writing is massively hilarious and verrrrry entertaining... you want something deep and meaningful go read War and Peace but if you want to lie down on the sofa and spend a weekend laughing so hard you fall off the sofa then buy this book - she's a great storyteller and turns a phrase like no one else.