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Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
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 finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child. Each story delivers the powerful, original language, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body--or of the intelligent body with the craving mind--that has come to be seen as stunningly emblematic of Gaitskill's fiction.Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize), and Don't Cry, as well as the novels The Mare, Veronica, and Two Girls, Fat and Thin (both nominated for the National Book Award). Her stories and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum, and Granta, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The O. Tales for the Henry Prize
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307275875 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307275876 |
| Title | Don't Cry |
| Author | Mary Gaitskill |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2010-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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