- Human-animal relationships, Innercities, Fiction, Horses
The 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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Mary Gaitskill
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 441
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307379740
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