Don't Cry

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.

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

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