Today I'm Yours: From the Collection Don't Cry

by Mary Gaitskill

Overview

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
 
It was the first autumn of the Iraq War, when Ella saw Dani again. “Today I’m Yours” is a story of seduction and layered memory, a love affair fifteen years past but not forgotten—from the author of the National Book Award nominated and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Veronica. 
 
Mary Gaitskill is widely acclaimed as a caustically sharp observer of American culture high and low, of bodily temptations and sensual intelligence. A selection from Gaitskill’s story collection, Don’t Cry, a New York Times Notable Book.
 
An eBook short.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101912324
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/24/2015
Series:	A Vintage Short
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Don’t Cry, and Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the film of the same name. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in New York.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

November 11, 1954

Place of Birth:

Lexington, Kentucky

Education:

B.A., University of Michigan, 1980