The Resource The mare : a novel, Mary Gaitskill
The mare : a novel, Mary Gaitskill
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The item The mare : a novel, Mary Gaitskill represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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- Summary
- 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.--From book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Advance reader's edition.
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307379740
- Label
- The mare : a novel
- Title
- The mare
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Gaitskill
- Subject
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- trueWomen artists
- trueAcademics
- trueBrooklyn, New York City
- trueCommunities
- Dominican Americans -- Fiction
- Girls -- Fiction
- trueGirls and horses
- trueHispanic American girls
- Horsemanship -- Fiction
- trueHorses
- trueInterethnic relations
- trueLife change events
- trueMarried people
- trueNew York (State)
- truePoor people
- trueRich people
- trueRich people -- Relations with poor people
- Upstate New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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.--From book jacket
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10446300
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaitskill, Mary
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Girls
- Dominican Americans
- Upstate New York (N.Y.)
- Horsemanship
- Label
- The mare : a novel, Mary Gaitskill
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn903284253
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- Advance reader's edition.
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307379740
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015007973
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)903284253
- Label
- The mare : a novel, Mary Gaitskill
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn903284253
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- Advance reader's edition.
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307379740
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015007973
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)903284253
Subject
- trueWomen artists
- trueAcademics
- trueBrooklyn, New York City
- trueCommunities
- Dominican Americans -- Fiction
- Girls -- Fiction
- trueGirls and horses
- trueHispanic American girls
- Horsemanship -- Fiction
- trueHorses
- trueInterethnic relations
- trueLife change events
- trueMarried people
- trueNew York (State)
- truePoor people
- trueRich people
- trueRich people -- Relations with poor people
- Upstate New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
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