Mary Gaitskill is the author of novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin, as well as the story collections Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and Esquire. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction.
Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough.
*Dazed & Confused*
Gaitskill is enormously gifted...[Veronica] is a masterly
examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture
and fashion, time and memory.
*The New York Times Book Review*
This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling
industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick
that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories.
*TLS Books of the Year*
Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the
very incongruousness of her language has shocking power.
*The New York Times*
Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful,
devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica
that lure you back, over and over.
*Elle*
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty
and ugliness of human relationships
*Observer*
Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer...
*The Sunday Business Post*
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty
and ugliness of human relationships
*Observer*
Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough. * Dazed & Confused
*
Gaitskill is enormously gifted...[Veronica] is a masterly
examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture
and fashion, time and memory. * The New York Times Book Review
*
This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling
industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick
that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories. -- DJ
Taylor * TLS Books of the Year *
Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the
very incongruousness of her language has shocking power. * The New
York Times *
Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful,
devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica
that lure you back, over and over. * Elle *
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty
and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer... * The Sunday
Business Post *
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty
and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
Back after ten years, the author of Bad Behavior details the friendship between down-on-her-luck model Alison and an older woman named Veronica who's about to discover AIDS (it's 1980s New York/Paris). With a five-city tour. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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