Mary Gaitskill Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/mary-gaitskill/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:31:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Mary Gaitskill Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/mary-gaitskill/ 32 32 38398750 Small Books, Quick Thoughts https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/small-books-quick-thoughts/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/small-books-quick-thoughts/#comments Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:57:23 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13457 This post may include Amazon links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I was going to call this post Short and Sweet, but the title is not quite right for these three novels. Sweet implies a bit of passivity and isn’t often a trait I like in my fiction. Instead, each of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/small-books-quick-thoughts/feed/ 2 13457 The Mare: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:43:51 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7524   The Mare by Mary Gaitskill begins when Velvet, a Dominican girl living in NYC, is eleven and ends when she thirteen, but her life experiences go far beyond her age. Through the Fresh Air Fund, she gets to go to upstate NY for a summer and stays with Ginger (“this blond lady…her face full […]

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