Secretary

Mary Gaitskill

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Penguin
15 July 2025

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Erotic fiction

Series: Penguin Archive

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace- these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world. In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories, Gaitskill evokes with razor-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.

By: Mary Gaitskill
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 182mm, Width: 112mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 90g
ISBN: 9780241752210
ISBN 10: 0241752213
Series: Penguin Archive
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody with A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.