Because They Wanted To - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Because They Wanted To write by Mary Gaitskill. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Because They Wanted To available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of startling and breathtaking stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. A New York Times Notable Book 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 a strange city with another woman’s fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending father helplessly lashes out at the daughter he both loves and resents. In these raw, startling, and incandescently lovely stories, the author of Veronica yields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. Because They Wanted To is further evidence that Gaitskill is one of the fiercest, funniest, and most subversively compassionate writers at work today.
Veronica
Veronica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veronica write by Mary Gaitskill. This book was released on 2013-03-13. Veronica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Years 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.
This Is Pleasure
This Is Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Is Pleasure write by Mary Gaitskill. This book was released on 2019-11-05. This Is Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song
Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song write by Kara Vernor. This book was released on 2016-06-03. Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost loves and pop music romances, Hollywood heartthrobs, and sunnier towns. They flee from failed relationships and looming violence, adulthood and other deaths. Written with dark humor and incisive, voice-driven prose, Kara Vernor's stories will stick in your head like a song.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
No One Belongs Here More Than You - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No One Belongs Here More Than You write by Miranda July. This book was released on 2008-05-06. No One Belongs Here More Than You available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours. In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly—they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals her characters’ idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.
