How to Talk to Girls at Parties

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"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" is a Neil Gaiman short story that blends awkward teenage romance with surreal, otherworldly encounters at a mysterious house party.

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instanceOf feature film
graphic novel
literary work
short story
adaptation How to Talk to Girls at Parties (film) NERFINISHED
artist Fábio Moon NERFINISHED
Gabriel Bá NERFINISHED
audience adult readers
author Neil Gaiman NERFINISHED
basedOn How to Talk to Girls at Parties NERFINISHED
How to Talk to Girls at Parties NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director John Cameron Mitchell NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 2006
genre fantasy
science fiction
speculative fiction
hasAdaptation How to Talk to Girls at Parties (comic adaptation) NERFINISHED
hasMotif encounter with the alien
miscommunication
teenage insecurity
includedIn Fragile Things NERFINISHED
language English
mainCharacter Enn NERFINISHED
Vic NERFINISHED
narrationType first-person narration
narrativePerspective retrospective account of youth
narrator Enn NERFINISHED
originalMedium print
originalPublication Fragile Things NERFINISHED
partOf Neil Gaiman short fiction bibliography
plotElement mysterious house party
surreal encounters with girls who may be otherworldly
publisherOfFirstCollection HarperCollins NERFINISHED
releaseYear 2017
setting suburban London
theme adolescence
alienation
awkward teenage romance
coming of age
encounters with the unknown
otherness
timePeriodOfSetting 1970s
tone melancholic
surreal

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