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. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow M...Daugiau...
Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days. Eimear McBrideNuanced, daring and tender,...Daugiau...
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad BehaviourDark, menacing and original Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade...Daugiau...
A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times IndependentMesmerizing - almost ecstatic The New York TimesMary Gaitskills coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lo...Daugiau...
Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment. Sunday TimesGaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, danger and social recalibration of the #MeToo movement into an extremely potent,...Daugiau...
Mary Gaitskills tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and womens inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to connect, play power games and inflict myriad cru...Daugiau...
A writer of prodigious gifts GuardianFull of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Dont Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskills incomparable excavation of character. An Old Virgin describes a nurses obsession wi...Daugiau...
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYAlison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader w...Daugiau...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONBold, dramatic and deeply unsettling GuardianWhen Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a couple in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week vis...Daugiau...
This is a reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskills 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 con...Daugiau...
Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories-her first in more than ten years.In "e;College Town 1980,"e; young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era;...Daugiau...
From the author of Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, comes Mary Gaitskills most poignant and powerful work yet: the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everyt...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2012, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company), ISBN-13: 9781439127971)
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 Book A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what...Daugiau...
