She's Bad News by Bright_as_night (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A Bantam Trade Paperback mass-market edition of Mary Gaitskill's first novel, after her acclaimed Bad Behavior story collection. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "A handwritten ad in a New York Laundromat has brought them together. Both are thirtyish, adrift, and fragile. Dorothy Never--overweight, excitedly intelligent--is a night-shift proofreader starved for conversation. She's changed her last name--and indeed, she's been hiding in Never-Never Land most of her life. Justine Shade--cool, slim, and pretty, former schoolyard sadist and adolescent sex bomb--is a lonely, desperate adult hypnotized by her latest kinky lover. As the two women argue about philosophy and life, each remembering an abusive girlhood overlaid with suburban prettiness, they are drawn into a subtle, turbulent, cockeyed relationship. For they are two sides of the same coin, each on her own path to physical and psychological danger. In this stark and intense novel, Mary Gaitskill summons a rare synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and wicked humor to tell an unforgettable story with redemption at its heart." [publisher copy] "Gaitskill's unparalleled ability to render the real in all its textures and bring it sharply before all of a reader's senses is complemented by her uncanny accuracy at recapturing both emotion and thought. TWO GIRLS displays her as a dismayingly strong writer."--Boston Globe. "[Gaitskill has] a fresh literary consciousness, a voice at once tender but unsentimental, lyrical and unfettered. She is destined to become a major force."--San Jose Mercury News. "Gaitskill writes with compelling power, evoking over and over the feeling of both the perpetrator-role and that of the victim."--Jane Smiley. Pristine unread paperback, a clean & attractive copy, w/sharp corners & crisp edges, some slight age-toning on pages o/w unmarked, w/square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, quite presentable for a 30-year-old m/m paperback.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 74 pages: 8 x 11 in.: 1: Vol. 66.11: KB#012188: Sports Illustrated (March 16, 1987). Magazine is complete (fully page checked; beware of Sellers who don't say this), but front cover is lightly creased and has a blank label over original owner's address. Otherwise, covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Magazine has New Back Board and Bag. Also is mailed with heavy cardboard on front and back sides as well, for protection. Articles include: The Heat Is On (Johnathan Edwards, Tim Perry, Charles Shackleford - by Curry Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wolff) * They Could Have Danced All Night (Mike Tyson, James Smith) * Dash And Crash On An Indy Track (Greg Foster, Heike Drechsler, Lee McRae - by Kenny Moore) * Back To Haunt The Sixers (Moses Malone - by Jack McCallum) * New Model in Motown (Jacques Demers - by Austin Murphy) * She's No. 2 With A Bullet (Steffi Graf, Evert Lloyd - by Douglas S. Looney) * The Downfall Of A Champion (by Garn McLain as told to Jeffrey Marx).