Books written by Mary Gaitskill
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Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying
Offers a collection of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction on airplanes and airplane travel by such diverse authors as Orville Wright, Charles A. Lindbergh, Erica Jong, Alice Munro, David Sedaris, and Roald Dahl.
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Veronica
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.
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This Is Pleasure: A Story
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident.
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The Devil's Treasure
" In The Devil's Treasure--aptly subtitled A Book of Stories and Dreams--the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art that transcends categorization.
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Best New American Voices 2009
At that moment , if she could have gathered them all in a large room — she pictured the basement conference room at Saint Stephen's where her youth group had met- -she would have reached for them , grasping . She would have said , I'm ...
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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More
The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr ... His work was also included in the 2000 and 2004 volumes of Da Capo Best Music Writing Will Hermes writes for the New York Times ...
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Don't Cry: Stories
Oooh, that's gotta hurt! “Still,” said Jennifer. “I don't see how they could not be mad about us being there.” Oooh, that's gotta hurt! Six months ago, he would not have been able to hold back. He would've gotten into it with this woman ...
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Two Girls, Fat and Thin: A Novel
This captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit.
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Bad Behavior: Stories
Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of ...
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Velvet
Velvet
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Lost Cat
'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.'
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Bad Behavior
Fierce tales of love and sexual obsession depict the moments of dislocation, intense longing, and forbidden desire that create the shocks of modern living
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Because They Wanted To: Stories
Because They Wanted To is further evidence that Gaitskill is one of the fiercest, funniest, and most subversively compassionate writers at work today.
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The Devil's Treasure
Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban cellar ...
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Bad Behavior: Stories
Fierce tales of love and sexual obsession depict the moments of dislocation, intense longing, and forbidden desire that create the shocks of modern living.
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Bad Behaviour
'Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it, these stories are a pleasure to read' Alice Munro 'An air of Pinteresque menace hangs over these people's social exchanges like ...
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The Mare: A Novel
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 ...
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Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior
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Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior