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Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Da Capo Best Music Writing by Mary Gaitskill & Daphne Carr (eds.)
$29.95 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strengt ...Show more
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
The Devil's Treasure by Mary Gaitskill
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rare work of criticism, memoir, and mythography from an author "aware of all the hidden chambers of the heart." (Greil Marcus, 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 li ...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
$19.99 AUD
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
$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
This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A provocative, nuanced novella about power, consent and friendship - and a masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate. 'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' - Sunday Times 'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, d ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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