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    <dateIssued>2000, c1999</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>Seven stories on a woman's search for love, first as a defiant teenager and finally as a reluctant career girl. The heroine narrates, "There are stacks and stacks of How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, and I take my copy up to the counter as furtively as if it were a girdle or vibrator."</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Advanced beginners -- The floating house -- My old man -- The best possible light -- The worst thing a suburban girl could imagine -- You could be alone -- The girls' guide to hunting and fishing.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Melissa Bank.</note>
  <note>Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1999.</note>
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    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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