The Mare
Nominiert: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
(Sprache: Englisch)
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class
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A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class
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'Bold, dramatic and deeply unsettling' GuardianWhen Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a couple in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her hosts - Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic and Paul, a college professor - and her own tormented mother.
Ginger longs for a child of her own, but Paul continues to refuse. 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. Velvet's one constant becomes her newly discovered passion for horse riding, and her affection for an abused, unruly mare.
A profound and stirring novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class, The Mare is a stunning exploration of the sometimes unexpected but profound connections made throughout our lives.
Autoren-Porträt von Mary Gaitskill
Gaitskill, Mary Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, the novels Veronica, The Mare and Two Girls Fat and Thin and the novella This is Pleasure. 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Gaitskill
- 2021, 448 Seiten, Maße: 13,8 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1788168674
- ISBN-13: 9781788168670
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Gaitskill's work feels more real than real life and reading her leads to a place that feels like a sacred space. Boston Globe
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