Oppositions: Selected Essays

Author:   Mary Gaitskill
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Edition:   Main
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9781788168168


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   09 November 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mary Gaitskill
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:   Serpent's Tail
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.180kg
ISBN:  

9781788168168


ISBN 10:   178816816
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   09 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Gloriously trenchant, but never gimmicky * Guardian * Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail. * The New York Times * Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it. -- Alice Munro Gaitskill has long been interested in the power play inherent in sexual relationships, so when it comes to probing the messy, murky topography of abuses of power and issues of consent, she's definitely the woman for the job. -- Lucy Scholes * Daily Telegraph * A cool and formidable collection * The New York Times * Gaitskill is enormously gifted. * The New York Times Book Review * Provocative and wry * Vogue * The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing * LA Times * A writer of prodigious gifts * Guardian * Gaitskill is phenomenally gifted -- Sarah Hall Never fails to surprise, provoke, or wander into the murky areas most writers try and avoid ... Oppositions is never less than fascinating -- Steven Long * The Crack * Gaitskill's personal essays are evergreen... her non-fiction succeeds in embracing complexity -- Mia Levitin * TLS *


Gloriously trenchant, but never gimmicky, in these unsparing essays... insightful and revealing * Guardian * Gaitskill has long been interested in the power play inherent in sexual relationships, so when it comes to probing the messy, murky topography of abuses of power and issues of consent, she's definitely the woman for the job. -- Lucy Scholes * Daily Telegraph * Provocative and wry * Vogue * Gaitskill is enormously gifted. * The New York Times Book Review * The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing * LA Times * A writer of prodigious gifts * Guardian * Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail. * The New York Times * Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it. -- Alice Munro Gaitskill is phenomenally gifted -- Sarah Hall Never fails to surprise, provoke, or wander into the murky areas most writers try and avoid ... Oppositions is never less than fascinating -- Steven Long * The Crack * Gaitskill's personal essays are evergreen... her non-fiction succeeds in embracing complexity -- Mia Levitin * TLS *


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Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, the novels Veronica, The Mare and Two Girls Fat and Thin, the novella This is Pleasure and the memoir Lost Cat. 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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