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This Is Pleasure

✍ Scribed by Mary Gaitskill

Book ID
115248473
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
30 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781524749132

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin's friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin's and Margot's voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole personsβ€”hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable.

Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her...

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