Lost Cat
'Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail.' -- New York Times'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.'So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning book-length essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir. Lost Cat begins with the story of how Gaitskill rescued a stray cat in Italy and brought him to live with her in the US, where he went missing.As she explores the unexpected trauma of her loss, Gaitskill describes how she came to foster two siblings, Caesar and Natalia, two inner-city children who spent summers and holida…
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- ISBN: 978-1-911547-81-5
- EAN: 9781911547815
- Produktnummer: 33884311
- Verlag: Daunt Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 177 KB
Über den Autor
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody With A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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