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Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.' So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning long essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir, about a lost cat and a pair of adopted children. In this searing p ...Show more
This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing' LA Times 'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.' Quin and Margot have b ...Show more
This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
$12.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A provocative, nuanced novella about power, consent and friendship - and a masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate. 'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' - Sunday Times 'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, d ...Show more
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