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A New York Times Notable Books <br> A mindsearing, soul-rattling, gratitude-inducing collection. <br>-- O, The Oprah Magazine <br> Gaitskill writes with visceral power. . . . She commands her readers' attention as few fiction writers can. <br>--Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review <br> Masterful. . . . Past, present, future; heartbreak, desire, and loss--none of it is quite beyond her. Gaitskill's prose glides lightly over unsoundable depths. <br>-- The Village Voice <br> Exquisite. . . . Gaitskill never stops at surfaces. . . . She believes--maybe reluctantly--in the absolute primacy of human connections, no matter what mess we tend to make of them. <br>-- The Chicago Tribune <br> Intense and thought-provoking, compelling and often tragic, yet filled with a subtle magic. . . . Gaitskill explores the spectrum of emotion: lust, greed, sorrow, hope, anger and many forms of love. <br>-- Los Angeles Times <br> Gaitskill is a fiercely emphatic writer--her concern always how close we can get to the pith of a protagonist or relationship--and Don't Cry is wonderfully Machiavellian in its excavation of character. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle <br> Evocative yet efficient descriptions that remind you why you read in the first place. . . . Gaitskill never loses sight of her ambition to claim her readers' hearts. . . . With unpretentious yet heartbreaking lines. . . . Gaitskill owns you, and earns the right to put you through the ringer of vulgarity. <br>-- Newsweek <br> Gaitskill's short stories, with remarkably little prologue, routinely go far down and in deep. . . . She is, to be sure, one of the great living American fiction writers. <br>-- The Buffalo News <br> <br> Gaitskill seems to have traveled through a lifetime of perception, moving in a progression from raw and violently sexualized to tender and regretful, with every character knowing the intimacy and exhaustion of sorrow. <br>-- The Boston Globe <br>

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Mary Gaitskill is also the author of Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Veronica was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the recipient of 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. She lives in New York.

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