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  • Bad Behavior

    Stories

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s classic debut collection from the 1980s—powerful stories of dislocation, longing, and desireNow towering and inevitable in its influence on writing by and for young urbanites, Bad Behavior heralded Mary Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest writing talents of her time, or any time: exquisitely funny and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • This Is Pleasure . . . and This Is Pain

    A Novel in Two Parts

    **From a visionary explorer of the mutable, sometimes treacherous edge of gender relations comes an electrifying update to her #metoo story This Is Pleasure, in which the voices of the women accusers expand and proliferate, as do the consequences for the man they accuse; this special “flipbook” edition includes the two narratives back to back.“A tale for our time, if ever there was one.” —Katy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • This Is Pleasure

    A Story

    Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident.The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Two Girls, Fat and Thin

    A Novel

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, this evergreen debut novel, with its "fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors" (New York Times Book Review) examines the lives of two women as they journey into the dark side of contemporary life and the deepest recesses of the soul"Darkly, erotically compelling."—USA Today**Originally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Don't Cry

    Stories

    Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories—her first in more than ten years. In “College Town l980,” young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale “Mirrorball,” a young man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand; in “The Little Boy,” a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is ... Read more

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  • Veronica

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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.One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAlison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Somebody with a Little Hammer

    Essays

    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 Björk, and the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer’s long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Mare

    A Novel

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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 Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Don’t Cry

    Stories

    Narrated by Mary Gaitskill ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories—her first in more than ten years.In “College Town 1980,” young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale “Mirror Ball,” a young man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand; and in “The Little Boy,” a woman haunted by the death of her ... Read more

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    This Is Pleasure . . . and This Is Pain

    A Novel in Two Parts

    Unabridged

    5 hours

    **From a visionary explorer of the mutable, sometimes treacherous edge of gender relations comes an electrifying update to her #metoo story This Is Pleasure, in which the voices of the women accusers expand and proliferate, as do the consequences for the man they accuse; this special “flipbook” edition includes the two narratives back to back.“A tale for our time, if ever there was one.” —Katy ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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  • Icon

    "In this collection commissioned by Amy Scholder, nine original essays explore the specific and personal impact of cultural icons." — Publishers WeeklyWhose poster hung on your wall as a teenager? Whose record did you wear out? Whose life story could you not resist? Fascination works in mysterious ways—it can be born out of inspiration, or repulsion, or both. In these daring essays, some of the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil's Treasure

    A Book of Stories and Dreams

    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 are living.” (Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine)Mary Gaitskill is unique among American novelists in “her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.”* In this searching ... Read more

    $10.69 USD