Secretary
$18.78
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2025
Summary
The Precarious Edge: Tales of Desire and Dislocation
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace – these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world.
In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories, Gaitskill evokes with razor-s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752210 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241752213 |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
| Author: | Mary Gaitskill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 182mm x 112mm x 9mm |
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About The Author
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don’t Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody with A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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