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_aPS3557.A36 _bM37 2015 |
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_aFIC GAI _2 |
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_aGaitskill, Mary _d(, 1954-) |
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_aThe mare : _ba novel _c/ Mary Gaitskill. |
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_aNew York _b: Pantheon Books _c, 2015 |
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_a441 p. _c; 25 cm |
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| 520 | 3 | _aThe 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. | |
| 546 | _aEnglish. | ||
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_aHuman-animal communication _v--Fiction |
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_aYoung women _v--Fiction |
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