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Simon & Schuster, February 1998
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0684841444
ISBN-13: 9780684841441
Description
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 woman’s 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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Browse Inside Because They Wanted ToSeattle Times, April 17, 2009
...'Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill Pantheon, 226 pp., $23.95 It's a long way from 'Bad Behavior' Mary Gaitskill's 1988 debut story collection to 'Don't Cry: Stories,' her latest collection of ...
International Herald Tribune, March 25, 2009
...Don't Cry Stories By Mary Gaitskill 226 pages. Pantheon Books. $23.95. Fiction gives readers access to the private lives of characters who don't know they're being watched, people who seem real ? ...
New York Times, March 21, 2009
...or diversion they might offer. No writer understands and gratifies the voyeurism inherent in reading fiction better than Mary Gaitskill. Dont Cry, her third collection of stories, confirms what made Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To ...
The Daily Camera, March 20, 2009
...Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill. Pantheon, 240 pp. $23.95 Mary Gaitskill has made a name for herself as a fiction writer of rare candor for whom no sex-related topic is out of bounds ...
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Bad BehaviorNational Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection—powerful stories of dislocation and desire which depict a disenchanted urban...Read More
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