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Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Full of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don't Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskill's incomparable excavation of character. 'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; 'Folk Song' dissects the lives of people beh ...Show more
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strengt ...Show more
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'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.' So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning long essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir, about a lost cat and a pair of adopted children. In this searing p ...Show more
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'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 McBride Nuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 NZD
Category: General 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
$25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.
This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
$17.00 NZD
Category: General 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
$17.00 NZD
Category: General 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: General 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
$23.00 NZD
Category: General 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
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