| The Mare Contributor(s): Gaitskill, Mary (Author), Garcia, Kyla (Read by), Lewis, Christa (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1504671597 ISBN-13: 9781504671590 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.5" (0.25 lbs) |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the author of Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, comes Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet: the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her.Velveteen Vargas is an eleven-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. Here we see the couple's changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years, as well as Velvet's powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet's vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul.The timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with the story of people from different races and socioeconomic backgrounds trying to meet one another honestly. It is a novel that is raw, striking, and completely original. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pratt, Sean: - Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been narrating since 1996 and has recorded over six hundred audiobooks. He is a seven-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr. and Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin, among others. Gaitskill, Mary: -Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novel Veronica, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and named one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2005. She is also the author of a short-story collection and the acclaimed novels Because They Wanted To and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her short story "Secretary" was the basis for the film of the same name. Garcia, Kyla: -Kyla Garcia was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. She discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University. Lewis, Christa: -Christa Lewis is a classically trained actress and a graduate of Boston University's four-year conservatory training program. She's worked full time at the microphone since getting her start as a newsreader for an international news broadcaster. Recently relocated to Los Angeles, she now narrates audiobooks full time. Zanzarella, Nicol: -Nicol Zanzarella is an audiobook narrator and a theater and television actress. She has appeared in productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, Cousin Bette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and many others. She is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York. |