Bibliograph

Smart ovens for lonely people, Elizabeth Tan

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Smart ovens for lonely people, Elizabeth Tan

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Smart ovens for lonely people

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Tan

Summary

In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincidences in her life. Four girls gather to celebrate their underwear in 'Happy Smiling Underwear Girls Party', a hilarious take-down of saccharine advertisements. With her trademark wit and slicing social commentary, Elizabeth Tan's short stories are as funny as they are insightful. This collection cements her role as one of Australia's most inventive writers

Table Of Contents

Night of the fish -- Our sleeping lungs opened to the cold -- A girl is sitting on a unicorn in the middle of a shopping centre -- Pang & Co. Genuine Scribe Era Stationery Pty Ltd -- Eighteen Bells Karaoke Castle (sing your heart out) -- Smart ovens for lonely people -- Mounting sexual tension between two long-time friends; Tom knows that Ant is a spy but Ant doesn't -- .pptx -- Ron Swanson's stencilled 'stache -- Washing day -- Yes! Yes! Yes you are! Yes you are! -- Would you rather -- Excision in F-sharp minor -- Happy smiling underwear girls party -- Disobeying -- This is not a treehouse -- Shirt dresses that look a a little too much like shirts so that it looks like you forgot to put on pants (love will sve the day) -- The Meal Channel -- Lola Metronome and Calliope St Laurent having a picnic at the end of civilisation as we know it -- You put the u in utopia (or, The last Neko Atsume player in the world) -- Acknowledgements

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