- Fiction, City and town life, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)
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Classical in form, prestige, character-led and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Mary Gaitskill
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher
- Poseidon Press, Vintage Books, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780340494837
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