by Mary Gaitskill · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781788168151
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«Oppositions: Selected Essays» is Mary Gaitskill's essay collection, published by Serpent's Tail in hardback (224 pages, in English).
Mary Gaitskill brings together essays written over thirty years on literature, art and everyday experience. With a gaze that avoids simplistic moral judgments, she addresses everything from Nabokov and Charles Dickens to horse riding, the film Dancer in the Dark and the Apocalypse, with sincerity, irony and compassion.
The original edition was published in 2021; the book falls within the genres of essay, non-fiction, feminism and politics.
For readers of contemporary essays and cultural criticism interested in a lucid, non-dogmatic perspective on literature, art and everyday life.
Mary Gaitskill is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Her books include the short story collection Bad Behavior (1988) and Veronica (2005), which was nominated for both the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
