The Mare - Couverture rigide

Gaitskill, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1410487334 ISBN 13 : 9781410487339

Editeur : Thorndike Pr, 2016

Synopsis

Following her National Book Award nominated "Veronica, "here is Mary Gaitskill s most poignant and powerful work yet 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. 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 Velvet s encounter with the horses at the stable down the road especially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting characters Velvet s abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet s nascent passion "The Mare" traces Velvet s journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable.
In Gaitskill s 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."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MARY GAITSKILL is the author of the story collections "Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To" (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and "Don t Cry, " and the novels" Veronica "(nominated for a National Book Award) and "Two Girls, Fat and Thin." 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.""

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Pr
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410487334
• ISBN 13: 9781410487339
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 725
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible