Mary Gaitskill

El debut literario de Mary Gaitskill: un viaje a la lujuria exento de sentimentalismos. Hace treinta y cinco años, Mary Gaitskill debutaba como escritora en la escena literaria con un libro de relatos punzante y divertido, cargado de erotismo, que cosecho rapidamente las alabanzas de la critica. El libro en cuestion era Mal comportamiento, la opera prima que catapulto a la autora como una de las voces mas prometedoras del momento por su asombrosa capacidad de retratar la perversion sexual entre los seres humanos. En esta coleccion de nueve relatos, hallamos las vidas de hombres y mujeres que se entrecruzan en la crueldad y la intimidad mas profundas para hablarnos de la adiccion a las drogas, del trabajo sexual, de la curiosidad y de la desesperacion. La unica forma de aplacar su soledad es mediante encuentros sexuales de todo tipo: secretarias que se someten a juegos masoquistas con sus jefes, veterinarios insatisfechos que se enamoran de intelectuales que ejercen la prostitucion... Con un tono despiadado, los personajes asumen sus contradicciones para explorar el deseo hasta sus ultimas consecuencias. Sin pedir perdon y sin pedir permiso. Con una fuerza arrolladora, Mal comportamiento nos impulsa a abandonar nuestros prejuicios con una obra pionera en reflejar la voluntad sexual femenina en literatura.Criticas:La ficcion de Gaitskill milita contra las respuestas faciles.The Sunday Times Pintoresca [...]. Gaitskill escribe con tal autoridad, con un radar tan perceptivo, que es capaz de hacer que incluso las situaciones mas extremas parezcan reales [...]. Su franqueza periodistica, sin compromisoscon el sentimentalismo o el encanto voyerista [...] subraya la fuerza de su debut.Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Al escribir sobre la naturaleza humana en su forma mas perversa y desesperada, Gaitskill ha creado una serie de imagenes intimas y casi hermosas.Publishers Weekly ¡Ese cambio de perspectiva tan agudo! ¡Esa manera de diseccionar! Es muy buena. Muy habil. Me encanta. Por no mencionar todo el trabajo que hace la imaginacion de un solo personaje femenino. En esta obra no se malgasta ni una palabra.Emily Temple, Lit Hub Esto es lo que mas admiro de la escritura de Gaitskill [...]: su capacidad para seguirle el rastro a las mentes que luchan por salir de sus caminos habituales. Al permitir a sus personajes esta libertad, Gaitskill empuja al lector a esos mismos espacios abiertos de conciencia y alli formula una pregunta: ¿puedes dejar de juzgar a estos personajes, a las personas que te rodean, incluso a ti mismo, para ver lo que no estas viendo?.Alan Rossi, Granta

Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail. -- New York TimesLast year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I dont know for certain.So begins Mary Gaitskills stunning book-length essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir. Lost Cat begins with the story of how Gaitskill rescued a stray cat in Italy and brought him to live with her in the US, where he went missing.As she explores the unexpected trauma of her loss, Gaitskill describes how she came to foster two siblings, Caesar and Natalia, two inner-city children who spent summers and holidays with Gaitskill and her husband. The joys and ultimate difficulties of this relationship lead to a searing examination of loss, love, safety and fear, and how our limited understandings brush against our unlimited hopes. Gaitskill applies her razor-sharp writing to her most personal subjects yet.Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you dont expect it. -- Alice Munro

In this seductive and shattering novel, Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modeling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess, and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years later, Gaitskill casts a fierce yet compassionate eye on the two eras and their fixations. Veronica masterfully evokes the fragility and mystery of human relationships in a world where love is rife with contradictions. Evocative, raw and entirely unique, Veronica was shortlisted for the prestigious 2005 National Book Award in the USA.

En Quin i la Margot fa més de vint anys que són amics. En Quin és extravertit i molt sensual, té una personalitat magnètica, i sempre es mou en lambigüitat del flirteig. És incapaç destablir un lliga

When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a family in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant.Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her host familyGinger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic; and Paul, a college professorand her own deeply tormented mother. The one constant becomes Velvets newly discovered passion for horse ridingand especially for an abused, unruly mare named Fugly Girl.A stirring and deeply felt novel, The Mare is Mary Gaitskills most poignant and powerful work yeta stunning exploration of a girl and her horse, and of the way we connect with people from all walks of life.

Ginger is in her forties and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. When it becomes clear it's too late for her to have a baby of her own, she tries to persuade him to consider adoption, but he already has a child from a previous marriage and is ten years older than her, so doesn't share her longing to be a parent at any cost. As a compromise, they sign up to an organisation that sends poor inner-city kids to stay with country families for a few weeks in the summer, and so one hot July day eleven year old Velveteen Vargas, a Dominican girl from one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods, arrives in their lives, and Ginger is instantly besotted. Bemused by her gentle middle-aged hosts, but deeply intuitive in the way of clever children, Velvet quickly senses the longing behind Ginger's rapturous attention. While Velvet returns her affection, she finds the intensity of it bewildering. Velvet's own passions are more excited by the stables nearby, where she discovers she has a natural talent for riding and a deep affinity with the damaged horses cared for there. But when Ginger begins to entertain fantasies of adopting her, things start to get complicated for everyone involved. This is a heartbreakingly honest and profoundly moving portrait of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people, and the way we long for fairytale endings despite knowing that they don't exist

Un homme et une femme se rencontrent dans un avion. La conversation tourne à la confidence, voire à laveu. Un père découvre quil ne comprendra jamais sa fille, tout comme son propre père était resté

Dans les années 80, Alison a connu son heure de gloire comme mannequin à New York. Mais le rêve a tourné court et s’est transformé en ballade de la dépendance. La drogue, l’argent facile et les succè

Dans les années 80, Alison a connu son heure de gloire comme mannequin à New York. Mais le rêve a tourné court et s’est transformé en ballade de la dépendance. La drogue, l’argent facile et les succè

Un homme et une femme se rencontrent dans un avion. La conversation tourne à la confidence, voire à laveu. Un père découvre quil ne comprendra jamais sa fille, tout comme son propre père était resté

Quin est licencié de la maison dédition new-yorkaise où il travaille depuis de longues années. Il est accusé par plusieurs femmes de conduite " inappropriée ". Pourtant, il peine à comprendre ce quon

Quin est licencié de la maison dédition new-yorkaise où il travaille depuis de longues années. Il est accusé par plusieurs femmes de conduite " inappropriée ". Pourtant, il peine à comprendre ce quon

A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month Selection It was the first autumn of the Iraq War, when Ella saw Dani again. Today Im Yours is a story of seduction and layered memory, a love affair fifteen years past but not forgottenfrom 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 observer of American culture high and low, of bodily temptations and sensual intelligence. A selection from Gaitskills story collection, Dont Cry, a New York Times Notable Book. An eBook short.

The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad BehaviourDark, menacing and original Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are isolated. Both are damaged by their pasts. When Justine interviews Dorothy about her involvement with an infamous and charismatic philosophical guru, the two women are drawn together with an intense magnetism that throws their lives off balance. Mary Gaitskills first novel is an intense, darkly funny and caustic portrayal of loneliness and the search for intimacy.What makes her scary, and what makes her exciting, is her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we dont even know we are living Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

Following her National Book Awardnominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskills 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 Velvets encounter with the horses at the stable down the roadespecially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting charactersVelvets abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvets nascent passionThe Mare traces Velvets journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable. In Gaitskills 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.

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 Quins friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quins and Margots voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole personshurtful 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 charactersand to her readersis that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we dont always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.