Girls' poker night : a novel by Davis Jill 1949-

Author:Davis, Jill, 1949-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women journalists, Female friendship, Single women
ISBN: 9536897318
Publisher: New York : Random House
Published: 2002-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Jill A. Davis was a writer forLate Show with David Letterman,where she received five Emmynominations. She has also writtenseveral network pilots, screen-plays, and short stories. Beforemoving to New York City, shewrote a humor column for a smallmetropolitan newspaper.

Book website: www.girlspokernight.comAuthor e-mail: [email protected]

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"Girls' Poker Night is blithe, engaging, off-the-wall funny." N —Joan Didion

'Jill Davis's Girls' Poker Night is every man's worst nightmare—a candid look athow the other half thinks and feels. Ruby Capote is a smart, neurotic, maddeningheroine against whom very few male poker players would stand a chance. I certainlyhope this is fiction." —Jay McInerney, author of

Bright Lights, Big City and Model Behavior

'Jill Davis has the voice of your very best friend—funny, irreverent, gossipy, deli-ciously nasty but always compassionate. Just pour yourself a drink, sit back, andlisten to her rant hilariously about her journey to romance and maturity."

—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Pilgrims and Stern Men

'Funny, fast-moving, and disarmingly honest, Girls' Poker Night, to use a Hollywoodconstruct, is an American Bridget Jones meets Sex and the City, with a soulfulsmidgen of Bright Lights, Big City." —M ark O'Donnell, author of

Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay

'Ruby Capote, the sparkling jewel at the center of Jill A. Davis's brilliant debut, iswise, witty, and achingly vulnerable in the tradition of the fabulous dames of screw-ball comedy. I loved her and you will too!" —A drianaTrigiani, author of

Big Stone Gap and Big Cherry Holler

"Jill Davis captures exactly what it feels like to be a single woman on the verge offalling in love; what it feels like to risk everything and cross the line from distrustto trust, from not believing to believing. Girls' Poker Night is funny, sad, and full ofperfect little truths. It's one of those rare books that you read and think, I know thatwoman. She's me." —Laura Zigman, author of

Animal Husbandry and Dating Big Bird

"Girls' Poker Night is a smart, funny, and wonderfully grown-up novel."

—S usan Isaacs, author of Long Time No See and Lily White

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