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Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Da Capo Best Music Writing by Mary Gaitskill & Daphne Carr (eds.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
This is the seventh book in the eagerly-awaited series of annual collections celebrating the best of writing on all styles of music, from rock to hip-hop to jazz to pop to blues and more. Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly-awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in ...Show more
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Following the extraordinary success of her novel Veronica, 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 debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fa ...Show more
Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About Flying by Dorothy Spears (Editor); James Salter; Mary Gaitskill
$42.74 NZD
Category: History
Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient--and often irritating--means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year history of human air travel, it has yielded writing that is, ...Show more
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biography & 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
$39.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
'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
$32.99 NZD
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
$22.99 NZD
Category: 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
This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
$16.99 NZD
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
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, ...Show more