The Mare: Vintage Contemporaries
Autor Mary Gaitskillen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2016
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 road especially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting characters Velvet s abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet s nascent passion "The Mare" traces Velvet s journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable.
In Gaitskill s hands, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from different races and classes trying to meet one another honestly. "The Mare" is raw, heart-stirring, and original.
"From the Hardcover edition.""
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780307743602
ISBN-10: 0307743608
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Seria Vintage Contemporaries
ISBN-10: 0307743608
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Seria Vintage Contemporaries
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Notă biografică
Recenzii
Gaitskill's
work
feels
more
real
than
real
life
and
reading
her
leads
to
a
place
that
feels
like
a
sacred
space.
Penetrating ... confronts, head-on, white privilege and black victimhood.
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
Velvet is that most wonderful of fictional creations: a convincing child who manages to be a captivating and perceptive narrator.
Visceral and haunting, and the telling, with its shifting first person narrative, is nothing short of masterful.
A poignant, beautiful coming of age story about race, class and motherhood.
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.
A timely examination of the pains and pleasures that follow one woman's attempt to bridge the yawning gap of understanding between two races.
Emotionally complex voices crafted with skill and sensitivity.
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.
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.
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.
a devastatingly good novel
Here, without a drop of condescension, is fiction that pumps blood through the cold facts of inequality
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
Penetrating ... confronts, head-on, white privilege and black victimhood.
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
Velvet is that most wonderful of fictional creations: a convincing child who manages to be a captivating and perceptive narrator.
Visceral and haunting, and the telling, with its shifting first person narrative, is nothing short of masterful.
A poignant, beautiful coming of age story about race, class and motherhood.
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.
A timely examination of the pains and pleasures that follow one woman's attempt to bridge the yawning gap of understanding between two races.
Emotionally complex voices crafted with skill and sensitivity.
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.
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.
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.
a devastatingly good novel
Here, without a drop of condescension, is fiction that pumps blood through the cold facts of inequality
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
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A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.