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Mary Gaitskill
Beloved cult novel repackaged to join the Serpent’s Tail Classics series.
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Featuring sex between friends, between enemies and between strangers, this is a collection of stories about people who want badly, without quite knowing what it is that they want or…
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A collection of provocative, searching short stories by Mary Gaitskill, acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and This is Pleasure.
A provocative, nuanced novella about power, consent and friendship - and a masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate.
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This is a first collection of short stories by a former stripper and panhandler who has previously won several prizes for short fiction. These strange and poignant stories of seedy…
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Lost Cat begins with the story of how Gaitskill rescued a stray cat in Italy and brought him to live with her in the US, where he went missing. As…
Justine is slim and Dorothy obese. As their relationship develops they reveal what lies beneath the surface of their normal suburban childhoods: cruel power games, painful tension between intimacy and…
A bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her "ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we…
Vladimir Nabokov
‘Such a beautiful and mysterious book’ Zadie Smith Nabokov’s 999-line poem written by the reclusive genius John Shade
What is in the bag behind the Devil’s chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone. I’ve been criticized- and sometimes…
This book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker (newyorker.com) on July 8, 2019 –Copyright page.
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A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
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Thorndike Press large print reviewers’ choice –Title page verso.
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A collection of stories unfolding against the backdrop of American life over the last thirty years
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Don’t Cry is Mary Gaitskill’s first collection of stories in over ten years, following the tremendous success of her previous collections, Bad Behaviour and Because They Wanted To.
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season.
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.
In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bjoerk, and the playfulness…
The long-awaited novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior is a dark fairy tale set in Paris and Manhattan in the 1980s–a story about beauty, narcissism and appetite, transience…
In stories set on airplanes, in restaurants, at parties, and in assorted bedrooms, the bestselling author of Bad Behavior entices readers to listen in on characters whom they may not…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Mary Gaitskill’s Tiny, Smiling Daddy, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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Hanan al-Shaykh
An evocative reimagining of nineteen tales from the classic story about young queen Shahrazad’s efforts to save her life from a brutal husband focuses on female characters at the heart…
Charles M. Boyer,Mary Gaitskill
Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village; he is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a…
Marlene Van Niekerk
I was immediately mesmerized … as brilliant as it is haunting. –Toni Morrison
James Salter,Mary Gaitskill,David Sedaris,Roald Dahl
Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient-and often irritating-means for distributing masses of people to the far…
Various
A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.
'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power…
A Meteor of Intelligent Substance
Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is
Liberties is THE place to be
Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential…
