The Mare

By Mary Gaitskill

Book Overview

One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times - The Washington Post - NPR - San Francisco Chronicle - Vanity Fair - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Kansas City Star 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307743608
• ISBN13: 9780307743602
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"