Secretary by Mary Gaitskill
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world. In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories, Gaitskill evokes with razor-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.
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The Fire Next Time
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The Driver's Seat
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Chess
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The House of Hunger
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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The Burial of the Rats
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
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The Daemon Lover
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Where Everything is Music
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Can Socialists be Happy?
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The Blazing World
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A Dog's Heart
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A Dill Pickle
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A Hunger-Artist
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Transformation
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Why I am a Stoic
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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The New Dress
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Coal
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Thousand Cranes
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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Night Flight
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After Midnight
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
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For Art and for Life
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
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Horsie
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Paris France
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The Rich Boy
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The Umbrella
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To Read and Dream
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Some Japanese Ghosts
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Unpacking My Library
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The Story of an Hour
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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
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Lady L.
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The Prose Edda
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Requiem
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Tristessa
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Family Happiness
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Lois the Witch
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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A Lost Lady
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
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Stan the Killer
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Closely Watched Trains
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody with A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241752210 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241752213 |
| Title | Secretary |
| Author | Mary Gaitskill |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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