{"product_id":"dont-cry-9780307275875","title":"Don't Cry","description":"Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than ten years. In \"College Town l980,\" young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale \"Mirrorball,\" a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; in \"The Little Boy,\" a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child. Each story delivers the powerful, original language, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body--or of the intelligent body with the craving mind--that has come to be seen as stunningly emblematic of Gaitskill's fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Gaitskill \u003c\/b\u003eis also the author of \u003ci\u003eBecause They Wanted To\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for a PEN\/Faulkner Award) and the novel \u003ci\u003eTwo Girls, Fat and Thin\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eVeronica\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491654504722,"sku":"9780307275875","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2205936-eb96-46eb-b319-53bda25a8748.jpg?v=1730546603","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dont-cry-9780307275875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}