This Too Can Be Yours

by Beth Lisick and Rachel Griffin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916397734
• ISBN13: 9780916397739
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Manic D Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

So real it hurts

It doesn't take too many pages to figure out that this stuff is largely, if not totally, true. That's when you start to feel amazed at how much Beth Lisick opens herself up to share with us. The writing is clean and urgent. The subjects are unforgettable. How does she do this? Recommended.

so very funny and clever

I absolutely loved this collection of short stories--Lisick has a razor-sharp wit--I love seeing the modern world through her eyes. I picked this book up on my way home from work and spent the entire BART ride home laughing out loud. Now off to buy Monkey Girl...

Total Entertainment

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.

A Modern Day Dorothy Parker

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).

Beth Lisick's characters are hilarious!

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.