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02885aam a22004338i 4500 001 6E2CE5A406AC11EAB7FC8E1797128E48 003 SILO 005 20191114010022 008 190801s2019 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019033727 020 $a 1524749133 020 $a 9781524749132 035 $a (OCoLC)1111638488 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UAP $d OI6 $d IEP $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3557.A36 $b T48 2019 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Gaitskill, Mary, $d 1954- $e author. 245 10 $a This is pleasure / $c Mary Gaitskill. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 83 pages ; $c 19 cm 500 $a "This book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker (newyorker.com) on July 8, 2019" -- t.p. verso 520 $a "In this powerful short fiction, Mary Gaitskill--whose searing honesty about gender relations has been legendary since the appearance of Bad Behavior in the 1980s--considers our moment through the lens of a particular #metoo incident. The effervescent and well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has long been one of Margot's best friends. When several women in his field accuse him of inappropriate touching and remarks, Gaitskill builds the account of his undoing through Quin and Margot's alternating voices, allowing readers to experience Quin as a whole person--one whose behavior toward women could be hurtful and presumptuous on the one hand, and keenly supportive on the other. Margot, an older woman who alternately despairs of and sympathizes with the positions of the younger women involved in Quin's case, is the thrumming engine of this remarkable piece of truthtelling. As Gaitskill has said, fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject, which she sees as subtly colored in shades of gray, rather than the black and white of our current conversations. Her compliment to her characters--and to her readers--is that they are unvarnished and real; her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don't always admire them, is a beacon of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Book editors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sexual harassment $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 8 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518023937.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722062356.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210701010858.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406015117.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529021342.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200108010153.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20191203011950.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191114010116.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6E2CE5A406AC11EAB7FC8E1797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search