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Because They Wanted to: Stories Paperback - 1998
by Mary Gaitskill
In stories set on airplanes, in restaurants, at parties, and in assorted bedrooms, the bestselling author of "Bad Behavior" entices readers to "listen in" on characters whom they may not want to know--but whose secrets are irresistibly intriguing.
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A New York Times Notable Book
A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in a strange city with another womanâÈçs fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending father helplessly lashes out at the daughter he both loves and resents. In these raw, startling, and incandescently lovely stories, the author of Veronica yields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. Because They Wanted To is further evidence that Gaitskill is one of the fiercest, funniest, and most subversively compassionate writers at work today.
A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in a strange city with another womanâÈçs fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending father helplessly lashes out at the daughter he both loves and resents. In these raw, startling, and incandescently lovely stories, the author of Veronica yields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. Because They Wanted To is further evidence that Gaitskill is one of the fiercest, funniest, and most subversively compassionate writers at work today.
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He lay in his reclining chair, barely awake enough to feel the dream moving just under his thoughts.
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- Title Because They Wanted to: Stories
- Author Mary Gaitskill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Scribner Pap
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-02-27
- ISBN 9780684841441 / 0684841444
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.34 x 0.55 in (20.17 x 13.56 x 1.40 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96046337
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 03/08/1998, Page 28
- New Yorker (The), 11/09/2015, Page 78
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