Bad Behavior, Gaitskill, Mary

Автор: Gaitskill, Mary
Название: Bad Behavior
ISBN: 0241383102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241383100
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1319.00 р.
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Описание: Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to connect, play power games and inflict myriad cruelties on each other, she skewers urban life with precision and candour. 'Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it, these stories are a pleasure to read' Alice Munro'An air of Pinteresque menace hangs over these people's social exchanges like black funereal bunting ...

Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Автор: Gaitskill Mary
Название: Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays
ISBN: 0307378225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307378224
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2386.00 р.
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Описание: From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects deftly and aphoristically and moves beyond them to locate the deep currents of longing, ambition, perversity, and loneliness in the American unconscious. She shows us the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bjork, the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer's long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. And in the deceptively titled "Lost Cat," she explores how the most intimate relationships may be warped by power and race.
Witty, tender, beautiful, and unsettling, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value Gaitskill's fiction.