'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; 'Folk Song' opens with a list of newspaper headlines before dissecting the lives of the characters behind the features, including a murderer who gives a prime-time interview and a woman from San Francisco attempting to break a world record by having sex with one thousand men.
Full of jagged, lived emotion, broken people and powerful, original writing, Don't Cry is a testament to Gaitskill's formal range and incomparable excavation of character.
- ISBN10 1781255954
- ISBN13 9781781255957
- Publish Date 20 July 2017 (first published 24 March 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 February 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English