Mary Gaitskill, Author . Knopf $23 (227p) ISBN 978-0-375-42145-7
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Imagine that Edie Sedgwick penned a roman à clef in her 50s, and that she discovered, in her ugly, diseased decrepitude, that celebrities and downtown loft spaces and skuzzy rich hangers-on were the...
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Mary Gaitskill, Author . Pantheon $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-42419-9
A grab bag of 10 stories spotlight the writhing of Gaitskill’s (Veronica
) listless characters within unloving landscapes. In the portrayal of a depressive 29-year-old graduate student trying to pick up her life after a shattering breakup, R
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Mary Gaitskill, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-679-72327-1
This collection of nine stories ``marks the debut of a promising and provocative new voice,'' PW remarked. These are tales of sexual obsession, drug addiction, the darkest sides of interpersonal relationships. ``Writing about human nature at its...
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Mary Gaitskill, Author Not Avail $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65872-4
This collection of nine stories by Avery Hopwood Award-winner Gaitskill marks the debut of a promising and provocative new voice. These are tales of sexual obsession, drug addiction, the darkest sides of human relationships. Several of the stories...
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Mary Gaitskill, Author Simon & Schuster $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-68540-9
This impressive but uneven novel by the author of the praised short fiction collection Bad Behavior makes promises it does not keep. Two women, totally unalike in background, personality and social class, are brought together by a shared fascination
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Mary Gaitskill, Author Simon & Schuster $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-80856-7
In ""The Dentist,"" a story about a magazine writer's sexual infatuation with her bland, middle-aged dentist, a billboard for Obsession perfume looms over the protagonist's neighborhood, projecting a ""strange arrested sensuality of unsatisfied want.
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Mary Gaitskill. Pantheon, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-307-37974-0
In this novel by National Book Award–finalist Gaitskill (Veronica), 11-year-old Dominican-American Velveteen “Velvet” Vargas from Crown Heights in Brooklyn is invited to spend a few weeks with a white couple in upstate New York as part of the Fresh...
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Mary Gaitskill. Pantheon, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-37822-4
This collection of essays spanning two decades has the same fearless curiosity about the human psyche that Gaitskill (The Mare) exhibits in her fiction, along with the same unerring precision of prose. The broad range of her reviews, which cover art
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Mary Gaitskill, Author, Kathe Mazur, Read by , read by Kathe Mazur. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3404-1
Gaitskill begins her bittersweet novel of the friendship between fashion model Alison and the older HIV+ Veronica (whose looks and habits are totally alien to Alison's stylish world) years later when Alison is older and feeling her body slowly...
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Mary Gaitskill. Ze, $35 (336p) ISBN 978-1-73354-015-5
Gaitskill’s curious new project (after the novella This Is Pleasure) looks back on four of her previous novels and a memoir, splices them with critical self-reflections, and threads the needle with a short work in progress. The slight frame story...
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