Mare A Novel

Name: Mare A Novel
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ISBN: 9780307743602

ISBN-10: 0307743608

ISBN-13: 9780307743602

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mary Gaitskill

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Following her National Book Award-nominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet--the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul, who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/4/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English