Bøger af Mary Gaitskill

Un soberbio relato sobre la fragilidad y el misterio de las relaciones humanas. Finalista del National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Alison, hermosa adolescente, es descubierta casualmente por un fotógrafo que no tarda en arrastrarla al mundo de la moda y la pasarela. De su natal San Francisco viaja a Europa, donde desarrolla una carrera fulminante. El final de su trayectoria profesional coincide con el fracaso de su relación amorosa, y Alison se traslada a Nueva York para construir una nueva vida. Allí conoce a Veronica, una excéntrica mujer algunos años mayor que ella. Contra todo pronóstico, las dos mujeres se hacen amigas. Su amistad sobrevivirá no solo a la reincorporación de Alison al mundo de la moda, sino también el terrible descenso de Veronica al por entonces desconocido infierno del sida. El recuerdo de su amistad continuará persiguiendo a Alison años después, cuando ella también envejece y enferma y se cuestiona el significado de lo que experimentó y en qué se convirtió durante aquella época. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 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, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierce yet compassionate eye on two eras and their fixations, the result is a work of timeless depth and moral power.

A bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her “ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.” (Parul Sehgal, 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 living.”* In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban cellar door. The result is an answer to Gaitskill’s critics and, simultaneously, the best book we have about contemporary fiction, the forces ranged against it, and the forces that bring it into being. “Even among other artists attracted to weakness as a theme, [Gaitskill] is rare in being able to look at it on its own terms. She doesn’t treat it like a curiosity, like Diane Arbus, or a chink in the armor that might let in faith, like Flannery O’Connor. She isn’t afraid of it, like Muriel Spark; nor does she insist its depictions rouse us to action, like Sontag. She looks—just looks—and sees everything.” —Parul Seghal, New York Times Magazine*

A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season.

"In The Devil's Treasure--aptly subtitled A Book of Stories and Dreams--the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art that transcends categorization. This collage of four novels (one a work in progress), interspersed with and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author's commentary, is a kind of director's cut revealing the personal and societal forces that inform each individual piece of work, an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience, the ideally, sometimes quixotically high and grossly, confusedly low. With the stylistic daring and preternatural acuity that has made her one of America's most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life that simultaneously blends the huge prehistoric creatures that swim at the bottom of our collective ocean with a family that picnics on the beach while a podcast natters about politics and a perhaps dangerously curious child explores the lapping waves."--Provided by publisher.

Following her National Book Awardnominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yetthe story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul, who wonder what it will mean to ';make a difference' in such a contrived situation. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the roadespecially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting charactersVelvet's abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet's nascent passionThe Mare traces Velvet's journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable. In Gaitskill's hands, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from different races and classes trying to meet one another honestly. The Mare is raw, heart-stirring, and original.

Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village; he is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence

Beloved cult novel repackaged to join the Serpent's Tail Classics series.