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  • Bad Behavior

    Stories

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s classic debut collection from the 1980s—powerful stories of dislocation, longing, and desireNow towering and inevitable in its influence on writing by and for young urbanites, Bad Behavior heralded Mary Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest writing talents of her time, or any time: exquisitely funny and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Veronica

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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.One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAlison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • This Is Pleasure

    A Story

    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.The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Mare

    A Novel

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Following her National Book Award–nominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskill’s most poignant and powerful work yet—the 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Today I'm Yours

    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionIt was the first autumn of the Iraq War, when Ella saw Dani again. “Today I’m Yours” is a story of seduction and layered memory, a love affair fifteen years past but not forgotten—from the author of the National Book Award nominated and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Veronica.Mary Gaitskill is widely acclaimed as a caustically sharp ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Don't Cry

    Stories

    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 ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Somebody with a Little Hammer

    Essays

    In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer’s long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Devil's Treasure

    A Book of Stories and Dreams

    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 ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Because They Wanted To

    Stories

    A National Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book!From the bestselling author of Veronica, a breathtaking collection of short stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know.A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Mare

    Unabridged

    14 hours 40 min

    From the author of Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, comes Mary Gaitskill’s most poignant and powerful work yet: the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her.Velveteen Vargas is an eleven-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Bad Behavior

    Stories

    Narrated by Mary Gaitskill ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    This is a reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire, which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human connection.Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it was first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil's Treasure

    Series Book 4 - ZE Series
    “What is in the bag behind the Devil’s chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone. I’ve been criticized— and sometimes admired—for what some readers see as my affinity with cruelty, both in my depictions of it and my supposed infliction of it on characters.”In The Devil’s Treasure—aptly subtitled A Book of Stories and Dreams—the iconic author ... Read more

    $14.39 USD