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A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Gloriously trenchant, but never gimmicky, in these unsparing essays... insightful and revealing
Gaitskill has long been interested in the power play inherent in sexual relationships, so when it comes to probing the messy, murky topography of abuses of power and issues of consent, she's definitely the woman for the job
Provocative and wry
Gaitskill is enormously gifted
The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing
A writer of prodigious gifts
Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail
Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it
Gaitskill is phenomenally gifted
Never fails to surprise, provoke, or wander into the murky areas most writers try and avoid ... Oppositions is never less than fascinating
Gaitskill's personal essays are evergreen... her non-fiction succeeds in embracing complexity
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, the novels Veronica, The Mare and Two Girls Fat and Thin, the novella This is Pleasure and the memoir Lost Cat. She has received 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.