Don't Cry
'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; 'Folk Song' opens with a list of newspaper headlines before dissecting the lives of the characters behind the features, including a murderer who gives a prime-time interview and a woman from San Francisco attempting to break a world record by having sex with one thousand men.Full of jagged, lived emotion, broke…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78125-595-7
- EAN: 9781781255957
- Produktnummer: 22178746
- Verlag: Profile Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 226 g
- Gewicht: 226
Über den Autor
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica 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.
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