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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
It was the first autumn of the Iraq War, when Ella saw Dani again. “Today I’m Yours” is a story of seduction and layered memory, a love affair fifteen years past but not forgotten—from the author of the National Book Award nominated and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Veronica.
Mary Gaitskill is widely acclaimed as a caustically sharp observer of American culture high and low, of bodily temptations and sensual intelligence. A selection from Gaitskill’s story collection, Don’t Cry, a New York Times Notable Book.
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It was the first autumn of the Iraq War, when Ella saw Dani again. “Today I’m Yours” is a story of seduction and layered memory, a love affair fifteen years past but not forgotten—from the author of the National Book Award nominated and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Veronica.
Mary Gaitskill is widely acclaimed as a caustically sharp observer of American culture high and low, of bodily temptations and sensual intelligence. A selection from Gaitskill’s story collection, Don’t Cry, a New York Times Notable Book.
An eBook short.
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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release dateMay 24, 2015
ISBN9781101912324
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Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (1954, Kentucky, Estados Unidos) es autora de novelas, relatos y ensayos. En 1988 marcó, con esta colección de relatos, un antes y un después en la manera de narrar la relación de hombres y mujeres con el sexo, además de revolucionar la crítica y prácticamente crear el concepto de voluntad sexual femenina en literatura. En 1998 fue nominada al premio Pen/Faulkner por los relatos recogidos en Because They Wanted To. En 2005, su novela Veronica (publicada en Random House en 2007) fue finalista de dos prestigiosos premios literarios en Estados Unidos: el National Book Award y el National Book Critics Circle Award. También ha recibido el premio Hopwood, la beca Guggenheim y las becas de investigación Cullman y de la New York Public Library. En 2020, Random House publicó Esto es placer, una novela que recoge toda la rabia y las complejidades del #MeToo.
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Today I'm Yours - Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Don’t Cry, and Because They Wanted To, and the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica. Her story Secretary
was the basis for the film of the same name. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in New York.
ALSO BY MARY GAITSKILL
Don’t Cry
Veronica
Because They Wanted To
Two Girls, Fat and Thin
Bad Behavior
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006 (editor)
Today I’m Yours
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Mary Gaitskill
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Today I’m Yours
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Today I’m Yours
Today I’m Yours
I dreamed of Dani only once that I can remember, but it was a deep, delicious dream, like a maze made of diaphanous silk, or a room of hidden chambers, each chamber nested inside the previous one—except that according to the inverse law of the dream,
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