A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class - now in paperback
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica and Two Girls Fat and Thin. 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.
Gaitskill's work feels more real than real life and reading her
leads to a place that feels like a sacred space.
*Boston Globe*
Penetrating ... confronts, head-on, white privilege and black
victimhood.
*Daily Mail*
Gaitskill's novel is not a children's book, but it is a book about
what children long for, and how we long for the same thing many
years after we've left childhood behind
*The New York Times*
Velvet is that most wonderful of fictional creations: a convincing
child who manages to be a captivating and perceptive narrator.
*New Yorker*
Visceral and haunting, and the telling, with its shifting first
person narrative, is nothing short of masterful.
*GQ*
A poignant, beautiful coming of age story about race, class and
motherhood.
*Women and Home*
A thoroughly compelling read ... redemptive and moving, The Mare
offers as much fresh air for the author (and the reader) as it does
for her characters.
*Spectator*
A timely examination of the pains and pleasures that follow one
woman's attempt to bridge the yawning gap of understanding between
two races.
*Sunday Express*
Emotionally complex voices crafted with skill and sensitivity.
*Mail on Sunday*
Her voice captures a child's mixture of insight and innocence ...
As a model for getting back in contact with the natural world, this
is a delirious dream. As an acknowledgment of what human beings
fail to offer each other, it comes closer to being a nightmare.
*Times*
A novel about race, class and, as Gaitskill's convincingly drawn
characters show how different worlds collide, the seemingly
unbridgeable gap between the two in America.
*Daily Express*
The Mare is a dark, dreamlike novel, at times nightmarish, at
others offering glimpses of the sublime, shocking in its raw
depiction of violence, and beautiful in its evocation of flawed
love.
*Financial Times*
a devastatingly good novel
*psychologies magazine*
Here, without a drop of condescension, is fiction that pumps blood
through the cold facts of inequality
*Washington Post*
The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing and matched only,
it seems, by a desire to confront readers with the trembling
reality of our shared ugliness
*LA Times*
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