Don't Cry

'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; 'Folk Song' opens with a list of newspaper headlines before dissecting the lives of the characters behind the features, including a murderer who gives a prime-time interview and a woman from San Francisco attempting to break a world record by having sex with one thousand men. Full of jagged, lived emotion, broken people and powerful, original writing, Don't Cry is a testament to Gaitskill's formal range and incomparable excavation of character.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Gaitskill, Gaitskill Mary
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781781255957
• ISBN: 978-1-78125-595-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary