The Mare

Author(s): Mary Gaitskill

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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 different races and classes trying to meet one another honestly. The result is raw, heart-stirring, and original.

September 2016

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A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by race, class and privilege

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017

 

Gaitskill's work feels more real than real life and reading her leads to a place that feels like a sacred space. Boston Globe Velvet is that most wonderful of fictional creations: a convincing child who manages to be a captivating and perceptive narrator. New Yorker Gaitskill's novel is not a children's book, but it is a book about what children long for, and how we long for the same thing many years after we've left childhood behind The New York Times

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica and Two Girls Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.

General Fields

  • : 9781781257388
  • : Serpent's Tail Limited
  • : Serpent's Tail Limited
  • : 0.577
  • : July 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 448
  • : 813/.54
  • : English
  • : Sep-16
  • : Paperback
  • : Mary Gaitskill