Mary Gaitskill

The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour ‘Dark, menacing and original’ Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy Never – fat – lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade – thin – is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are […]

A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. The stories in this collection peer deep into the inner lives of men and women, explore the cavernous spaces between what we say and what can be […]