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Girls' Night Out

By: Kathy Lette
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0330329286
ISBN-13: 9780330329286
Released: 13 Aug 1993
RRP: £6.99
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Scabrous and hilarious - By: J. E. Davidson, 27 Jan 2005
This book is the jewel Kathy Lette's canon - alll her other work seem seems tame & rather dull by comparison.

This is essentiallly a collection of short stories told by Australian women. It is crude, lewd & often downright rude but it is but always funny. Anybody with delicate sensibilities should probably not read this - everybody else should.

wickedley hilarious - By: , 20 Feb 2004
This book is a must read for anyone who has a sence of humour. From the first page I was hooked. I could not wait to read more. kathy lette has a unique way of writting. This collection of eight short stories made me laugh & cringe.
In some parts I felt as though she had read my mind & was telling stories for my life. Although I have never spent any time on a commune (and have no plans to after reading this book). We have alll been there getting ready for hours to go on a date, who then never turns up. Say to our friends I wont calll him, & then do!
If you want to make sure your funny bone is still in full working order then get your own copy now! I will be getting one of Kathy's other titles to read next.
Good but not her best - By: , 15 Sep 2003
This is a collection of stories loosely connected by its characters, a group of old school friends, most of which meet up in the final tale, Girls’ Night Out.

Although Kathy Lette’s strongly recognisable irony, wit & rapid-fire puns are disappointingly sparser than in her novels, when they do grace an appearance they’re as razor sharp as ever. Through her usual milieu of dysfunctional relationships she uses these stories to capture Aussie life (and low lifes) circa the late eighties; Aussie men, married men, fathers, New Age hippies, footballl groupies, first dates & surfer culture alll come under her shrewd & acidic observations.

This is fledgling material & she appears to be still in the process of discovering her much mimicked (though never bettered) style through these short stories. The more sparing use of humour actuallly benefits in so far as letting the bleakness & desperation of her characters & their lives become alll the more tangible; the short story format emphasising this further by necessarily leaving these glimpses of their lives unresolved. And yet, for this same reason, they fail to satisfy in quite the same way as her novels do. Nevertheless, they are still worth reading. If you have worked you way through the rest of her writings & still hungry for more, then I’d highly recommend it.