One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling (Inbunden)
avHanan Al-Shaykh, Mary Gaitskill
ISBN: 9780307958860 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of "One Thousand and One Nights" tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Th[...]
Veronica (Häftad)
avMary Gaitskill
ISBN: 9780375727856 - UTGIVEN: 2006-07The unexpected friendship between two very different women--Alison, a beautiful young woman struggling to recover from her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader--survives both Alison's reentry into the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS as i[...]
Bleak House (Pocket)
avCharles Dickens, Mary Gaitskill, H. K. Browne
ISBN: 9780375760051 - UTGIVEN: 200206"Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in class[...]
Because They Wanted to: Stories (Häftad)
avMary Gaitskill
ISBN: 9780684841441 - UTGIVEN: 1998-02A "New York Times "Notable Book
A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in a strange city with another woman's fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending fat[...]
Bad Behavior: Stories (Häftad)
avMary Gaitskill
ISBN: 9781439148877 - UTGIVEN: 200907A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection, Bad Behavior--powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. - Now a classic: Bad Behavior [...]
