The Resource The mare, Mary Gaitskill
The mare, Mary Gaitskill
Resource Information
The item The mare, Mary Gaitskill represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The mare, Mary Gaitskill represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul, who wonder what it will mean to ђ́جmake a differenceђ́ح in such a contrived situation. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet́ђةs encounter with the horses at the stable down the roadђ́ؤespecially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting charactersђ́ؤVelvet́ђةs abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet́ђةs nascent passionђ́ؤThe Mare traces Velvet́ђةs journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 441 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307379740
- Label
- The mare
- Title
- The mare
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Gaitskill
- Title variation
- The mare
- Title variation remainder
- a novel (cover title)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul, who wonder what it will mean to ђ́جmake a differenceђ́ح in such a contrived situation. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet́ђةs encounter with the horses at the stable down the roadђ́ؤespecially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting charactersђ́ؤVelvet́ђةs abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet́ђةs nascent passionђ́ؤThe Mare traces Velvet́ђةs journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaitskill, Mary
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Girls
- Horses
- Ethnic relations
- Label
- The mare, Mary Gaitskill
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- sky273981297
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 441 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307379740
- Lccn
- 2015007973
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The mare, Mary Gaitskill
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- sky273981297
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 441 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307379740
- Lccn
- 2015007973
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
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