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Don'T Cry

Mary Gaitskill

'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; 'Folk Song' opens with a list of newspaper headlines before dissecting the lives of the characters behind the features, including a murderer who gives a prime-time interview and a woman from San Francisco attempting to break a world record by having sex with one thousand men.

Full of jagged, lived emotion, broken people and powerful, original writing, Don't Cry is a testament to Gaitskill's formal range and incomparable excavation of character.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : NOV 11, 2021
  • Imprint : Serpent's Tail
  • Page Extent : 240
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781788168687
  • Price : INR 499
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Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry and the novels Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award) and Two Girls Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and her work has appeared in the New Yorker Harper's Esquire The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories.

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