Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery (Author) , Jill Crawford (Narrator)

Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery (Author) , Jill Crawford (Narrator)

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"Show Them a Good Time is a master class in the short story-bold, irreverent and agonizingly funny." Sally Rooney, Author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends

Show Them a Good Time tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee. But these women are too intelligent, too ferociously mordant and painfully funny to remain in their places.
In "Not the End Yet,” Flattery probes the hilarious and wrenching ambivalence of Internet dating as the apocalypse nears; in "Sweet Talk,” the mysterious disappearance of local women sets the scene for a young girl to confront the dangerous uncertainties of her own sexuality; in "Abortion, A Love Story,” two college students in a dystopian campus reconfigure the perilous stories of their bodies in a fraught academic culture to offer a subversive play that takes over their own offstage lives. Together, the stories in Show Them a Good Time provide a riveting, hilarious introduction to one of today's most original young writers.

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Published	Jul 11 2023
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	256
ISBN	9781639730735
Imprint	Bloomsbury Circus
Dimensions	8 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Nicole Flattery

Nicole Flattery is the author of the story collect…

Narrator

Jill Crawford

I truly love and admire Nicole Flattery's writing. Show Them a Good Time is a masterclass in the short story – bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny – and it does full justice to its author's immense talent

Sally Rooney
Exhilarating. Flattery's judgments crackle with cruel, clear sight ... Flattery writes with empathy, freedom and virtuosic technique: this debut announces the arrival of a brilliant talent

Financial Times
If tradition is the kitchen sink, Flattery removes it from the wall, smashes it to pieces, and dances all over it with delight. With a literary voice that is as sophisticated and erudite as it is spiky and hilarious, Flattery has taken the short story format into an exciting, energetic, and multifaceted dimension

Sunday Independent
Startling, daring and dazzlingly dark

Colin Barrett
Smart as a whip, unusual, and very very funny, Flattery's distinctive prose is a real treat

Claire-Louise Bennett
Flattery tells the truth but tells it slant, so that from her sentences, to her symbolism, to her zany, often surrealist plots, her stories fizz with humour and surprise ... Flattery's writing – as subversive as it is original – has more than charm; acknowledging the terror, it celebrates the joy of humour in a hollow, imploding world

Irish Independent