The Mare

by Mary Gaitskill

Book Overview

Following her National Book Award-nominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet--the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. ? 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307379744
• ISBN13: 9780307379740
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"