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Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Bleak House by H. K. (ILT) Mary (INT); Browne Charles; Gaitskill Dickens
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
'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
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Somebody with a Little Hammer - Essays by Mary Gaitskill
$38.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects deftly ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following her National Book Award nominated "Veronica, "here is Mary Gaitskill s most poignant and powerful work yet the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
A Huffington Post 2015 Fall Can't-Miss New ReadA Kirkus Reviews Fall Must ReadAn Entertainment Weekly Blockbuster Novel of Fall 2015In National Book Award-finalist Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Huffington Post 2015 Fall Can't-Miss New ReadA Kirkus Reviews Fall Must ReadAn Entertainment Weekly Blockbuster Novel of Fall 2015In National Book Award-finalist Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.
This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
$14.99 AUD
Category: 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