Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

By Alissa Nutting

Book Overview

"Nutting's outrageous writing makes my face split with laughter. . . . She's glorious chaos and utterly original."--Lydia Millet

"A dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a kind of human bestiary, if humans were programmed to go down in flames, to run themselves aground, to seek ruin on every occasion. . . . (They) illuminate how people hide behind their pursuits, concealing what matters most to them while striving, and usually failing, to be loved."--Ben Marcus

Alissa Nutting's collection is reminiscent of George Saunders' or Aimee Bender's earlier work where nothing is held back and anything goes.

Alissa Nutting is fiction editor of the literary journal Witness and managing editor of Fairy Tale Review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984213325
• ISBN13: 9780984213320
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Starcherone Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Someone let Alissa Nutting know she defined my quarantine experience

Nutting's crazy and creative and unexpected and downright fun writing style never fails to pick me up from whatever low I'm in. I only hope she continues to put out these surreal and strangely addicting stories. This collection was definitely one I read in one sitting, telling myself I was going to go to bed once I finished this story. You have my seal of approval that you will thoroughly enjoy the creativity with which Nutting writes the most bizarre narratives.