This Is Pleasure
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Narrated by:
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Nan Mcnamara
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Ralph Lister
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By:
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Mary Gaitskill
About this listen
'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.'
Quin and Margot have been friends for more than twenty years.
Quin is an extrovert and a sensualist who thrives on flirtation and ambiguity. He is at his happiest when encouraging intimate confidences from the women he meets. Always clear with him about the boundaries of their own relationship, until now Margot has looked on his behaviour with a mixture of ambivalence and affection. But when Quin's actions are held up against a new light, and his life begins to unravel, Margot tries to work towards a deeper understanding of her friend, the damage he might have caused, and the loyalty he deserves.
This is Pleasure is a masterpiece of fiction that looks unflinchingly at the difficult and necessary debates of our present moment. It rejects moral certainties while honouring the ambiguity and vulnerability at the heart of all human relationships.©2019 Mary Gaitskill (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
Critic reviews
"The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing." (LA Times)
and if you don't play the game of the new modernists you are damned indeed
very though provoking
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