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Don't Cry (2009)

by Mary Gaitskill(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0375424199 (ISBN13: 9780375424199)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Pantheon Books

review 1: I couldn’t even remember why I bought this book once I started reading it. The stories were horrible and very hard to read. Though I only made it through one and a half stories I felt as though my IQ points were dropping like flies. I couldn’t see any rhyme or reason for any of the stories that I read and there seemed to be only one main theme to each one and that was sex, and not the kind of sex that I really wanted to read about EVER.
review 2: Gaitskill's stories are so real, it almost hurts to look at them. 'Mirrorball' blew me away; as did all the tiny details, the pinpricks that make up each picture. I see on here that male readers don't like her work & find it too vaginal. But she's in no way a misandrist: these stories are coloured more by a sense o... moref sadness at how difficult it is for men and women to be together without abuses of power taking place, and a kind of longing that things were otherwise. In 'The Arms and Legs of the Lake', there is this same sense of sadness about soldiers and civilians during war (it's not so much about sex or gender at all - which might be why the male readers find this one ok). I would say her work is really about power relations; and personally I think it's fascinating that she looks at this in everyday relationships as well as in more obvious power play scenarios. The body & the mind are also territories to be fought over. less

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