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Don't Cry - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mary Gaitskill (Paperback)

Don't Cry - (Vintage Contemporaries) by  Mary Gaitskill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collection of stories unfolding against the backdrop of American life over the last thirty years<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than ten years. In "College Town l980," young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale "Mirrorball," a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; in "The Little Boy," a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child. Each story delivers the powerful, original language, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body--or of the intelligent body with the craving mind--that has come to be seen as stunningly emblematic of Gaitskill's fiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Books</b> <p/>"A mindsearing, soul-rattling, gratitude-inducing collection."<br>--<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i> <p/>"Gaitskill writes with visceral power. . . . She commands her readers' attention as few fiction writers can."<br>--Kathryn Harrison, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Masterful. . . . Past, present, future; heartbreak, desire, and loss--none of it is quite beyond her. Gaitskill's prose glides lightly over unsoundable depths."<br>--<i>The Village Voice</i> <p/>"Exquisite. . . . Gaitskill never stops at surfaces. . . . She believes--maybe reluctantly--in the absolute primacy of human connections, no matter what mess we tend to make of them."<br>--<i>The Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"Intense and thought-provoking, compelling and often tragic, yet filled with a subtle magic. . . . Gaitskill explores the spectrum of emotion: lust, greed, sorrow, hope, anger and many forms of love."<br>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Gaitskill is a fiercely emphatic writer--her concern always how close we can get to the pith of a protagonist or relationship--and <i>Don't Cry </i>is wonderfully Machiavellian in its excavation of character."<br>--<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"Evocative yet efficient descriptions that remind you why you read in the first place. . . . Gaitskill never loses sight of her ambition to claim her readers' hearts. . . . With unpretentious yet heartbreaking lines. . . . Gaitskill owns you, and earns the right to put you through the ringer of vulgarity."<br>--<i>Newsweek </i> <p/>"Gaitskill's short stories, with remarkably little prologue, routinely go far down and in deep. . . . She is, to be sure, one of the great living American fiction writers."<br>--<i>The Buffalo News</i><br><i> </i><br>"Gaitskill seems to have traveled through a lifetime of perception, moving in a progression from raw and violently sexualized to tender and regretful, with every character knowing the intimacy and exhaustion of sorrow."<br>--<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"Mary Gaitskill understands people. She doesn't patronize and she doesn't condemn. She simply focuses her insight into their characters, with rock-hard sympathy and beautiful prose."<br>--<i>The Sunday Oregonian</i> <p/>"If <i>Don't Cry</i> finds Gaitskill older and wiser, it proves she's lost none of the honesty and inventiveness. On the contrary, maturity suits her well."<br>--<i>South Florida Sun-Sentinel</i> <p/> "Savagely intelligent tales. . . . Gaitskill has consistently plumbed the farther reaches of psychic extremis with power and passion."<br>--<i>Elle</i><br><i> </i><br>"Gaitskill continues to deliver sharply defined visions of everyday lives that also manage to hum with a mysterious subconscious feedback."<br>--<i>Time Out New York</i><br><i> </i><br>"A deeply compassionate book. . . . Brave and even majestic. . . . In adult life we put things safely in categories. Gaitskill doesn't; won't. This is her project throughout the book: to remind us that people's experience ought not to be gainsaid. Experience ought to be explored and revealed. Physically, emotionally, and spiritually."<br>--<i>Slate </i> <p/>"For all of Gaitskill's rough perspective on the world, she doesn't shield her heart from view. . . . [There's] a thread of poignancy and real warmth that keeps her work from becoming inaccessible."<br>--<i>The Miami Herald </i> <p/>"Gaitskill knows how to pull open the trap door beneath the reader's feet, so that we drop from clever, supercilious dialogue and elegant description to something deeper. . . . She finds words for intimacy at its most inarticulate, in stories that jolt, seduce and disturb."<br>--<i>The Globe and Mail </i>(Toronto) <p/>"Gaitskill's characters have never listened very well, and these stories are strewn with the wreckage of lost opportunities and broken lives that result invariably. [But] <i>Don't Cry </i>moves beyond showing us the spilled milk to ask why it's on the floor--and whether, next time, things might be different."<br>--<i>The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i> <p/>"A gathering of fiercely observed portraits of cultural unease, from the Reagan years to the early days of the Iraq War." --<i>Vogue </i> <p/>"Gaitskill's m.o. is to follow her creations wherever they go--to places she didn't anticipate and may not full understand. She's ravenous for complexity."<br><i>--Bloomberg News</i> <p/>"Gaitskill takes up themes of yearning, grief and emotional vulnerability that will be familiar to her readers, but, this time, she imagines a broader landscape, rife with political turmoil. Gaitskill's emotional landscape is broader, too, and delicately nuanced. . . . Trust and shelter, recognition of one soul by another: In Gaitskill's world, these gifts--fragile, ephemeral, hard won--count as happiness."<br>--<i>The San Diego Union-Tribune</i> <p/>"<i>Don't Cry</i> takes its place among artworks of great moral seriousness."<br>--<i>BOMB Magazine</i> <p/>"Gaitskill is no coward. Comfort is more or less beyond the question here. Yet possibility lurks in every interstice. . . . Once again she plays with time, sliding past and present onto the same string like the beads of a darkly gorgeous necklace."<br>--<i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mary Gaitskill </b>is also the author of <i>Because They Wanted To</i> (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and the novel <i>Two Girls, Fat and Thin</i>. <i>Veronica</i> was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in<i> The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories</i>, and<i> The O. Henry Prize Stories</i>. She lives in New York.

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