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Author: Gaitskill, Mary Contains explicit material, [FM] Fantasy, [FP] Erotic fictionPublished on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as par t of 'the Penguin Archive' series.Paperback | 144 pages179 x 110 x 9 | 90g 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA 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. Show more