AENEROUS-HEARTED,SMARTLY COMIC, and wickedly insightful, The Girls Guide to Hunting

and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as

she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition

through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relation-

ships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace.

What is love, she wonders, as she scrutinizes the

wiles and ways of older, possibly wiser women; casts

a questioning eye toward various species of couples;

and holds out hey wrists for a spritz of perfume

from her beautiful boss How do you find it

(and keep it)--and above all, who makes the rules?

IN THE THROES OF A BUDDING ROMANCE, Jane repairs to the self-help shelves to take a sojourn

with authors Bouncy Bonnie and Blown-Dry Faith,

who whisper in her ear and tell her what the rules

are--in their terms. "Wear your hair long... Don t say

7 loveyou first... Don t accept a date less than four days

in advance..." and above all, "Don t be funny!. . .

Men like femininity, " Faith says, crossing her legs.

"Humor isn t feminine . . . "

WHEN SHE IS SWEET OFF HER FEET by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque world of

cocktail parties, country houses, and rules-that-

were-made-to-be-broken, Jane learns what it means

when her lover says he wants "to everything" with

her, and the stakes become far too high.