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The Devil's Treasure by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Languages and Reference
A rare work of criticism, memoir, and mythography from an author "aware of all the hidden chambers of the heart." (Greil Marcus, New York Times Magazine) Mary Gaitskill is unique among American novelists in "her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are li ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
A Huffington Post 2015 Fall Can't-Miss New ReadA Kirkus Reviews Fall Must ReadAn Entertainment Weekly Blockbuster Novel of Fall 2015In National Book Award-finalist Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
Following her National Book Award nominated "Veronica, "here is Mary Gaitskill s most poignant and powerful work yet the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Ginger is in her forties and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. When it becomes clear it's too late for her to have a baby of her own, she tries to persuade him to consider adoption, but he already has a child from a previous ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
A Huffington Post 2015 Fall Can't-Miss New ReadA Kirkus Reviews Fall Must ReadAn Entertainment Weekly Blockbuster Novel of Fall 2015In National Book Award-finalist Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from ...Show more
This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
'The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing' LA Times 'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.' Quin and Margot have b ...Show more
This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
A provocative, nuanced novella about power, consent and friendship - and a masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate. 'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' - Sunday Times 'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, d ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other ...Show more
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
In this seductive and shattering novel, Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modeling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye.
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Category: Fiction
In this seductive and shattering novel, Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modeling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye.Over the next twenty years their friendship ...Show more