| The Mare Contributor(s): Gaitskill, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307743608 ISBN-13: 9780307743602 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times - The Washington Post - NPR - San Francisco Chronicle - Vanity Fair - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Kansas City Star When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a family in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her host family--Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic; and Paul, a college professor--and her own deeply tormented mother. The one constant becomes Velvet's newly discovered passion for horse riding--and especially for an abused, unruly mare named Fugly Girl. A stirring and deeply felt novel, The Mare is Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet--a stunning exploration of a girl and her horse, and of the way we connect with people from all walks of life. |