Don't Cry -- Mary Gaitskill, Paperback

Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than ten years. In "College Town l980," young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale "Mirrorball," a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; in "The Little Boy," a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child. Each story delivers the powerful, original language, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body--or of the intelligent body with the craving mind--that has come to be seen as stunningly emblematic of Gaitskill's fiction.

Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/09/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780307275875

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/14/2010 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 11/09/2015 pg. 78

About the Author
Mary Gaitskill is also the author of Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Veronica was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the recipient of 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. She lives in New York.