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The mare : a novel / Mary Gaitskill.

By:

Gaitskill, Mary, (, 1954-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books , 2015Description: 441 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780307379740

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC GAI

LOC classification:

PS3557.A36 M37 2015

Abstract: The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York - Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul - who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. The story illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the road - especially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting characters - Velvet's abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet's nascent passion - The Mare traces Velvet's journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GAI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003402

The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York - Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul - who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. The story illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the road - especially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting characters - Velvet's abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet's nascent passion - The Mare traces Velvet's journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable.

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