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The Flirty Text Message Helper: Witty Texts For Clever People

Author : Michael Alvear
Publisher : Woodpecker Media
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Can't Think Of Anything Flirty To Text That Cutie You Just Met? Try one of the witty texts hand-picked by our team of writers and researchers. Classified by 19 dating circumstances, there are no cliches, lame poems or cheesy pickup lines. These are real texts we've tested on guys and girls. For example: You: STOP. Likely reply: Stop what? You: Stop thinking about me. See, you’re doing it…right now. Use our texts for other situations, too. Let's say you want to make the other person jealous. Try this: You: You would NOT believe what happened to me last night! Likely reply: What? You: Oh, crap! Wrong person! What if you just want to make somebody smile with a clever text? Try this: "I renamed my iPod ‘The Titanic’ so when I plug it in it to my computer it says, “The Titanic is Syncing.” Or if you want to pay them a teasing compliment? Try this: You: “This cat way cat to cat keep cat a cat cutie cat busy cat for cat 20 cat seconds cat! Likely reply: ??? You: NOW READ IT WITHOUT SAYING CAT! With The Flirty Text Message Helper you'll never write another boring text again! And because our texts are categorized by 19 common dating situations you'll find the perfect texts for your particular situation: 1. You Don’t Know How Interested They Are So You Want To Start Slow 2. You Know They’re Interested So You Want To Be Flirty 3. You want to make them laugh. 4. Cute Ways Of Saying Hello After You’ve Texted a Couple of Times 5. Cute Ways of Saying Goodbye 6. Clever Questions That Make You More Interesting For Asking. 7. You Want To Play Hard To Get (Cocky Funny) 8. “Unclogger” Texts: Getting Him Or Her To Text You Back 9. Clever Questions To Ask When You Don’t Know How To Start A New Thread 10. You Want To Be Seen As Fun & Wacky 11. You Want To Be Seen As A Partier 12. Teasing: Taking The Hot Girl Or Guy Down A Peg Or Two 13. Insults: Mowing Down The Hot Girl Or Guy 14. You Want To Step It Up To A Phone Call 15. Dirty Flirty: You’ve had sex 16. Filthy Dirty: Texts That Would Scare Your Mom 17. You’re falling in love 18. You screwed up 19. Fun Phrases The Flirty Text Message Helper Helps You Impress The People Who Impressed You! Download It Today. Use It Tonight!

Meet, Attract & Text Hotter Guys

Author : Woody Miller
Publisher : Woodpecker Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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3 GAY DATING GUIDES FOR ONE LOW PRICE!1. MEET Hotter Guys: Wildly clever ways to strike up conversations 2. ATTRACT Hotter Guys: The first body language guide for gay men 3. TEXT Hotter Guys:The only gay texting guide that ensures dates and hookups The Best Selling Gay Dating Guides On Amazon Are Having A Three-Way!Now you can buy the 3-book series for one low price. Written by “The East Coast Dan Savage,” Woody Miller is a gay dating advice columnist and former host of HBO’s The Sex Inspectors. Book #1: MEET HOTTER GUYSThis manual will help you develop rock star confidence. Imagine being able to walk into a room and get noticed right away. You wouldn’t be afraid of rejection. You’d be able to start conversations with anyone anywhere at any time. And those conversations would capture the imagination, stir curiosity and set the stage for a real connection. You’d be able to start a conversation with a good-looking guy who doesn’t look interested and charm him into wanting you. You’d know how to disarm guys who think you may be hitting on them so they’ll relax enough to have a conversation (and give you a chance to see you as a potential partner them). You’d know how to prevent ‘conversation stalling” and awkward silences. Book #2: ATTRACT HOTTER GUYSAre you subconsciously sending “go away” signals to cute guys? Look in the mirror. Your body language may be all wrong. It’s a good bet that half the guys you like are turned off by your body language. This guide will show you how to use seductive body language to make yourself more approachable. You'll learn how to: * Shake hands * Lean in (or away) * Point your feet (yes, feet, long story) * Angle in a certain way during conversations * The direction you approach guys you want to meet * The way you look at guys you're interested in * The way you use your body to catch their attention * The way you use your hands to gesture. Book #3: TEXT HOTTER GUYSHow long should you wait to text? Why is he taking so long to respond? How can you come up with consistently clever texts? How do you amp up the romantic or sexual tension? How do you get shy guys to ask for your number? How do you turn distant guys into passionate dates? How do you get guys to pursue you. The first texting guide for gay men answers all these questions. You'll also learn how to: * Say something clever. * Create attraction. * Turn his texts into calls. * What to say on that first phone call. * Post-date texting that ll heat up the sexual and romantic tension. * What to do if you’re only in it for the sex. Save Money & Improve Your Love Life!Bought separately, these books would cost $23.97 but they're yours for $9.99 as a bundle. Scroll up, click the buy button and enjoy your soup!

The Guide To Gay Texting

Author : Woody Miller
Publisher : Woodpecker Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Only Flirty Texting Guide Written For Gay Men!The techniques in this gay texting guide will: • Turn his ambivalence into an obsession. • Help you develop a sense of texting humor that makes hotties want to get with you. • Get that distant guy to pay more attention. • Provide common texting scenarios and solutions to keep his attention on you. • Avoid being friend-zoned. • Use “multiple threads” to avoid conversational dead-ends. • Dip into a catalog of 300+ witty pre-written texts when you can’t think of something yourself. The Art Of Gay Texting: How To Make Guys Obsess Over You. Step 1: USE WILDLY CLEVER WAYS TO GET HIS PHONE NUMBER(or get him to ask you for yours). See 10 vivid examples of how to get his phone number. Too shy to ask? Read the 6 Clever Ways To Get Him To Ask You For Your Number. Step 2: IS HE DISTANT? SPARK HIS INTEREST. Do it with fun, quirky texts that make him look forward to hearing his phone ding. Example: “Do you think naming two puppies Daft and Punk is a little over the top?" Learn the 9 Must-Know Tactics To Texting Guys Who Aren’t Showing Much Interest. You’ll have him panting for your next text and wanting to hang out with you in no time. It’s all on p. 25-36. Step 3: GET GUYS TO CHASE YOU. See dozens of “dialogues” showing you ways to ramp up the romantic tension. Comes with my “Text Timing Chart” –showing you how to time your texts, and how long to wait to respond to his. Step 4: TEXT SOMETHING WITTY. Learn the 7 Biggest Texting Mistakes Most Gay Guys Make (And how to avoid them). Try my catalog of 300+ irresistible, witty texts. They’ll capture his attention, peak his curiosity and set the stage for a strong attraction. Step 5: TURN HIM ON. The word-for-word suggestions in this gay guide to texting are GUARANTEED to make him look at you and think, “Tonight just got more interesting.” These gay flirt texting tips are all on Pages 47-85. Step 6: GET HIM TO CALL YOU. Stop ‘texturbating!” You got his number to meet not text. Find out the 5 ways you can get him to call if he doesn’t do it on his own. You’re worth a phone call. All on P. 29-42. Step 7: HOW TO HANDLE THAT FIRST PHONE CALL. Prevent “conversation stalling” and awkward silences by using the “Multiple Threads” concept. Rephrase boring questions into interesting comments.Boring: “How many brothers and sisters do you have?” Interesting: “I bet you’re the youngest in your family.” You’ll also learn an amazing body language trick that projects warmth, confidence and sexiness over the phone. It’s all on P. 37-60. Step 8: POST-DATE TEXTING TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING. You asked him out (or got him to ask). Great. Date go well? Then use the charming text threads in this book. If the date didn’t go well (damn, boy, what did you do—tweet through dinner?!) and you still want to see him then read my chapter on “redemption texting.” Don’t want another date? (he was so boring at dinner the corn on the cob covered its ears?) See great examples of how to turn him down or turn him into a friend. Text Your Way Into His Heart. Or His Pants. Scroll up, click the buy button and start texting something fabulous!

Power Texting Men!

Author : Gregg Michaelsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615958524

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Power Texting Men! The Best Texting Attraction Book to Get The Guy Ok Girls you've been kickin' men's butts with my first 2 dating for women best sellers- Now let's not blow it with bad texting. I'm Gregg, take a walk down texting lane with me and let me divulge what guys WANT to hear from your thumbs! I'll make you a textpert by fixing preventable mistakes with simple solutions that WORK in minutes. This is an Amazon #1 Best Seller. Don't lose a man because YOU THINK you have texting down. Click on the Add to Cart button now! We know you can text. We got that. But too many times ladies text like we are your boyfriends. We are NOT. At least not yet and maybe never if you don't FIX your texting. We are also not your girlfriend, we don't want to hear how your make-up session is going even though we benefit from it. Power Texting Men! Will Give you 21 jaw dropping seductive texts that you just gotta use! Make him respond when YOU want him to Keep him captivated on you until the next date Crush ALL your texting blunders Show how timing, intent and emoticons MATTER Your night game and your future man rely on your texting ability. A weak link could send him packing. YOUR weak link is TEXTING MEN! This texting attraction guide will change this...don't turn him off EVER again Ladies, Do Not Pass Up this Book Learn the power of less is more Hit him with wit and keep his senses aroused Text things that he has never heard from another woman Learn the secrets of "texting silence" Book a date without him realizing that YOU just asked HIM out TEASE the crap out of him with your thumbs If you want to learn what turns on a man - ASK a man. You are lost when you text guys and I WILL fix this. I teach ladies how to get the reaction they want. Girls tell me what they text and it is often the polar opposite of what they SHOULD be texting. They read this best seller and say, "Wow, he just asked me out!" Yes because you finally figured out his simple brain by listening to ME...a MAN with a simple brain. About the Author Gregg Michaelsen, Boston's top dating coach, delivers again with top dating advice for women. He owns the huge dating tips for men site; KeysToSeductions.com. Gregg is an Amazon Best Selling Author with his books; Who Holds the Cards Now? , The Social Tigress!, How to Get Your Ex Back Fast and Love is in the Mouse.

Addickted

Author : Kristina Grish
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440517709

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You're not alone. Millions of smart, sexy, and sane women lust after Bad Boys - and unfortunately, they pay the price. These irresistible rogues can drive you wild with sexual abandon, emotional frustration, the will to submit, and the need to conquer. You know wicked smiles and fleeting attention are not the foundation for loving relationships. But how do you stop pouncing Naughty and start playing Nice? With Kristina Grish's clever, prescriptive 12-step recovery plan, you can learn to reject the Bad Boy - and fall hard for a Nice Guy. Packed with former addickt testimonials, advice from Bad Boys and Nice Guys alike, and Kristina's own recovery story, Addickted offers the total program you need to kick your toxic dating habits once and for all.

How to Attract Women If You're Not That Attractive

Author : Enrique Voltaire
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Dating (Social customs)
ISBN : 1537429191

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How to Attract Women If You're Not That Attractive by Enrique Voltaire Pdf

What is the Best Way to Approach an Attractive Lady? How do you get her attention? What should you say? How do you ask for her phone number? Some guys are so good-looking that girls naturally flock to them. Other guys, who are not as genetically blessed, have to use courage, humor, intelligence, psychology, and resiliency to attract beautiful women. How to Attract Women if You're Not That Attractive answers everything you need to know about attracting women if you do not look like Prince Charming.

Ask a Manager

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181825

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

The Complete Guide to Article Writing

Author : Naveed Saleh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599637525

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Master the art of article writing! The world of journalism is changing rapidly, and the modern journalist needs more than a basic knowledge of article writing to navigate it. The Complete Guide to Article Writing provides a compass for freelancers and students of journalism looking to write successfully on a wide variety of topics and for many different markets--both in print and online. From researching and interviewing to writing features, reviews, news articles, opinion pieces, and even blog posts, this one-stop guide will illuminate the intricacies of article writing so you can produce entertaining, informative, and salable articles. • Learn how to write coherently, cohesively, and concisely. • Choose the proper structure for the article you want to write. • Weave narrative and fact seamlessly into your pieces. • Develop your freelance platform with the latest in social media outlets. • Pitch your ideas like a pro. • Develop a professional relationship with editors. • And much more! Modern journalism can be a treacherous terrain, but with The Complete Guide to Article Writing as your companion, you'll not only survive the journey--you'll be able to write pieces that inform, entertain, inspire, delight--and sell!

The Guyde

Author : Howie Reith
Publisher : Howard Reith
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998352713

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The Guyde is the most comprehensive men's dating and self-improvement book ever written, designed to be everything you need to transform into the most confident version of yourself. There are no lines or routines; instead you'll find exercises and information to improve your self-esteem, social skills, and other elements integral to social success. Everything in these pages is backed with scientific evidence, and when I say scientific evidence, I mean cited peer-reviewed literature, not pop evolutionary psychology or the "law of attraction." You won't be reading anecdotes telling you about my "successes" or opinions; you'll be learning the practical steps necessary for the specific changes you want to manifest in your life. The Guyde is divided into four sections: Part I - Psychology Part I focuses on the internal elements of social interaction. How do you overcome your toxic self-limiting beliefs that keep you from being authentic with people? How do you overcome your fears? How can you stay motivated to make your changes? You will learn clinically effective approaches to all of these and more. Part II - Social Skills For many men, the biggest barrier between themselves and social success is a lack of social skills and awareness. In Part II, you'll learn how to shore up this weakness. You will learn how to listen, banter, share stories, and assert yourself with others. You'll learn how to improve your body language and vocal tonality to project confidence and charisma. Part III - Physical Attractiveness Part III will teach you how to improve your physical features. The first two chapters detail the most clinically effective approaches to diet and exercise. We'll also discuss the basics of fashion and how to dress to impress. Master Part III, and when you go out, you will turn heads. Part IV - Dating The final portion of The Guyde deals with dating, in this version, in a heterosexual male context. You'll learn the best places to meet potential dates, how to flirt, and how to ask someone out. You'll learn how to plan brag-worthy romantic evenings and how to address problems like rude cancellations and "ghosting." You'll learn how to interact physically while being sensitive to your date's wishes, as well as how to perform better in bed. You'll learn why relationships fail and how to avoid the pitfalls most couples fall into, and you'll come to understand a bit about what it's like to date from a woman's perspective, including many of the cultural factors they face that most men don't understand. The Guyde is a labor of love. I wrote it to be everything I wish I'd known when I was younger, the sorts of things that turned my life around for the better. I hope it does the same for you.

Superhero of Love

Author : Bridget Fonger
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781633411005

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How to Heal a Broken Heart Discover the superhero within your own heart. Every women knows that sometimes, love hurts, and learning how to let go of lost love can seem impossible. You find yourself asking, "How do I live without you?" The good news is that inside each one of us is our very own love superhero. You can find the strength inside yourself to live and love like never before, and Superhero of Love will teach you how. Moving on after heartbreak is much easier when you use your five superpowers. You already have the power to get over your break up─to find happiness again. In Superhero of Love, expert author and writer Bridget Fonger shares her own personal experience of going through a painful breakup and shows you how to rediscover your deep connection to your own heart, the ultimate source of love in your life. Bridget's method reveals The Five Superpowers: • Super Sight – the courage to see clearly • Super Hearing – the ability to hear your highest truth • Super Humility – discovering your true place in the universe • Super Self-Love – the magic of being in love with you • Super Alignment – knowing the presence of the divine in all things Learn how to get over heartbreak and soar. Whether you’ve been burned by a recent breakup, are harboring old wounds, or find yourself thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?” Superhero of Love will help heal your broken heart and show you that we are all superheroes who are born to fly. In this book, you will discover: • Tools for strengthening your emotional resilience • How to break free from old patterns that keep you stuck • How to gain wisdom to empower you to be your mightiest self Readers of books on how to heal a broken heart like The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, How to Fix a Broken Heart, and This Is Me Letting You Go will find happiness again with Superhero of Love.

Nevada

Author : Imogen Binnie
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374606626

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One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.

Not Yet Married

Author : Marshall Segal
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433555480

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Life Is Never Mainly About Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More. Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God's purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you "the one," but about inspiring you to live and date for more now. If you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of the perfect person, but a pursuit of more of God. He will likely write a love story for you different than the one you would write for yourself, but that's because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. This book was written to help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.

How to Text a Girl

Author : Chase Amante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dating (Social customs)
ISBN : 0983390428

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"One of the world's most vaunted dating experts shows you what to text, when to text it, and why... So you can get the dates and girlfriends you deserve..." --

Talking to Strangers

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316535625

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

This Is Pleasure

Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524749149

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Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. 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 gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.