{"title":"Mary Gaitskill","description":"MARY GAITSKILL is the author of the story collections Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN\/Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry,  the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and the essay collection Somebody with a Little Hammer. 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.","products":[{"product_id":"bad-behavior-stories-paperback","title":"Bad Behavior: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's classic debut collection from the 1980s--powerful stories of dislocation, longing, and desire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow towering and inevitable in its influence on writing by and for young urbanites, \u003ci\u003eBad Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e heralded Mary Gaitskill's arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest writing talents of her time, or any time: exquisitely funny and startlingly honest; bold and eye-opening on relationships, sex, and the erotic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Manhattan's Lower East Side and peopled with artistic freelancers and intelligent sex workers, smug yuppies and love-torn masochists, \u003ci\u003eBad Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a world equally cruel and tender, where romance and danger go hand in hand. Gaitskill delivers unforgettable stories of a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation groping for human connection.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102789472479,"sku":"9780593689400","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uoLTs8RLB89780593689400.webp?v=1781087360"},{"product_id":"the-devils-treasure-a-book-of-stories-and-dreams-paperback","title":"The Devil's Treasure: A Book of Stories and Dreams - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her \"ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are living.\" (Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Gaitskill is unique among American novelists in \"her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are living.\"* In this searching biography of the writer's imagination, Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban cellar door.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is an answer to Gaitskill's critics and, simultaneously, the best book we have about contemporary fiction, the forces ranged against it, and the forces that ping it into being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even among other artists attracted to weakness as a theme, [Gaitskill] is rare in being able to look at it on its own terms. She doesn't treat it like a curiosity, like Diane Arbus, or a chink in the armor that might let in faith, like Flannery O'Connor. She isn't afraid of it, like Muriel Spark; nor does she insist its depictions rouse us to action, like Sontag. She looks--just looks--and sees everything.\" --Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104766988511,"sku":"9781946022820","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RSqIrt6Ct99781946022820.webp?v=1781111275"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mary-gaitskill.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}