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.

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