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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA 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-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.

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    A Paperback by Mary Gaitskill

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
      Publication Date: 4/17/2025
      ISBN13: 9780241752210, 978-0241752210
      ISBN10: 0241752213

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      Book Synopsis
      90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA 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-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.

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