This Is Pleasure: A Story

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This Is Pleasure: A Story

This Is Pleasure: A Story

Name: This Is Pleasure: A Story
ISBN: 9781524749149

Mary Gaitskill

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The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor & fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin's friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin's & Margot's voices & perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful & hurting, infuriating & touching, & always deeply recognizable.

Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her...

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Mary Gaitskill is the author of Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat & Thin; Because They Wanted To; Veronica; Don’t Cry; The Mare; Somebody with a Little Hammer; & This is Pleasure.