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'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.'
This is Pleasure is an extraordinary work by one of the world's finest writers, and achieves more in 15,000 words than most full-length novels. Following the unravelling of the life of a male publisher undone by allegations of sexual impropriety and harassment, and the female friend who tries to understand, and explain, his actions, it looks unflinchingly at our present moment and rejects moral certainties to show us that there are many sides to every story.
Mary Gaitskill has spent her whole career mining the complexity of human relationships on both an individual and societal scale with wisdom and grace. Here her insights are more piercing and timely than ever.
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Gaitskill's work feels more real than real life and reading her leads to a place that feels like a sacred space (The Boston Globe)
Gaitskill is enormously gifted (The New York Times Book Review)
Gaitskill's willingness to ignore common wisdom and consider controversial and complex questions from different viewpoints is a true literary pleasure (Kirkus starred review)
I really admire how Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days. This is Pleasure is a breath of intellectual fresh air and badly needed. (Eimear McBride)
The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing (LA Times)
At the heart of this extraordinary, daring, provocative, pitch perfect story lies the idea that, sometimes, we act out a truth, only to run from it. (Rachel Cooke The Observer 2019-10-28)
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Gaitskill is enormously gifted (The New York Times Book Review)
Gaitskill's willingness to ignore common wisdom and consider controversial and complex questions from different viewpoints is a true literary pleasure (Kirkus starred review)
I really admire how Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days. This is Pleasure is a breath of intellectual fresh air and badly needed. (Eimear McBride)
The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing (LA Times)
At the heart of this extraordinary, daring, provocative, pitch perfect story lies the idea that, sometimes, we act out a truth, only to run from it. (Rachel Cooke The Observer 2019-10-28)
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2019
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