A Guardian Book of the Year A Guardian Writers' Choice Book of the Year'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' Sunday Times'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger,...

Lost Cat von Gaitskill, Mary

'A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times' Independent'Mesmerizing - almost ecstatic' The New York TimesMary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of...

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....

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...

Oppositions von Gaitskill, Mary

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. Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a...

Für zwei Wochen darf die junge Velvet ihren ärmlichen Verhältnissen entfliehen und Ferien in einem ländlichen Vorort machen. In dieser gehobenen Umgebung erregt Velvet sofort Aufmerksamkeit; doch nicht nur ihre Gastmutter, sondern auch...

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....

Bad Behavior: Mary Gaitskill (Penguin Modern Classics)

National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection--powerful stories of dislocation and desire which depict a disenchanted urban fringe. von Gaitskill, Mary