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Oppositions: Selected Essays - Mary Gaitskill

Oppositions: Selected Essays - Mary Gaitskill

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"If you have not yet worked through a thought with Gaitskill, [this] is a primer. It makes entirely clear how seriously she takes the idea of fairness, in life and in fiction, and how averse she is to even the lightest thumb on the scale" Bookforum

"As in her fiction, Gaitskill sees everything ... [These] essays further establish her as the important critical thinker she's always been" Chris Kraus

"While Gaitskill is best known for her fiction, this collection demonstrates her power as an essayist, and thrums with the same sexual energy" New Yorker

"It feels refreshing to finally have a grown-up in the room, laying down the law but not really caring whether you follow it or not" Merve Emre, Boston Review

"The question she seems to ask again and again, and with astonishing force ... is how to feel, how we do feel" New York Times Book Review

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'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.' Eimear McBride

Nuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior , consistently fascinate and provoke. Mary Gaitskill takes on a broad range of topics from Nabokov to horse-riding with her unique ability to tease out unexpected truths and cast aside received wisdom.

Written with startling grace and linguistic flair, and delving into the complicated nature of love and the responsibility we owe to the people we encounter, the work collected here inspires the reader to think beyond their first responses to life and art. Spanning thirty years of Mary Gaitskill's writing, and covering subjects as diverse as Dancer in the Dark , the world of Charles Dickens and the Book of Revelation with her characteristic blend of sincerity and wit, Oppositions is never less than enthralling.