The mare
Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-2016
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Ginger is forty-seven and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. It's too late for her to have a baby of her own, so she tries to persuade him to consider adoption, but he already has a child and doesn't share her longing to be a parent. As a compromise, they sign up to an organisation that sends poor inner-city kids to stay with country families for a few weeks in the summer, so one hot July day Velveteen Vargas arrives in their lives, and Ginger is instantly besotted.
Main title:
The mare / Mary Gaitskill.
Author:
Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-, author
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.
Collation:
448 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Baileys Longlist 2017
ISBN:
9781781255933 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
342508
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