Mary Gaitskill

• May-1989
• / General Fiction
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Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)...

• May-1992
• / General Fiction
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This captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill's "fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors" (The New York Times Book Review) create a haunting and un...

• Jan-1997
• / Literary
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A collection of startling and breathtaking stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know.A New York Times Notable BookA man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what ...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2005
• / General Fiction
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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.One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Gre...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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In these ten stories Mary Gaitskill works her signature narrative magic, training her generous vision on a broad spectrum of American lives. Beginning with a story of young people adrift in the college town of Ann Arbor on the cusp of the Reagan era ...

• May-2015
• / Literary
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   It was the first autumn of the Iraq War, when Ella saw Dani again. “Today I’m Yours” is a story of seduction and layered memory, a love affair fifteen years past but not forgotten -- fro...

• Nov-2015
• / Literary
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When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a family in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her hos...

• Feb-2016
• / Psychological Suspense
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This is a reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection, BAD BEHAVIOR--powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire, which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human co...

• Nov-2019
• / Literary
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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. The effe...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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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,...