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MARY GAITSKILL

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Publisher:
LADYBIRD
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-75221-0
Pages:
144
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A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace- these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world. In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories, Gaitskill evokes with razor-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.

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