Mary Gaitskill: The Mare, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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One of the Best Books of the Year
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When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a family in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her host family---Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic; and Paul, a college professor---and her own deeply tormented mother. The one constant becomes Velvet's newly discovered passion for horse riding---and especially for an abused, unruly mare named Fugly Girl. A stirring and deeply felt novel, The Mare is Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet---a stunning exploration of a girl and her horse, and of the way we connect with people from all walks of life.