Because They Wanted To
$22.94
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2021
Summary
A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young together stumbling over the foundations of their past, inside are twelve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241464144 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241464145 |
| Author: | Mary Gaitskill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 130mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
I really admire how Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days. – Eimear McBride
Gaitskill shares Edith Wharton’s forensic awareness of what happens just beneath the surface of high-toned encounters in public places * Independent *
Gaitskill’s brand of brainy lyricism, of acid shot through with grace, is unlike anyone else’s. And it constitutes some of the most incisive fiction writing around – Meghan O’Rourke * New York Times Book Review *
What makes her exciting is her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living. – Parul Sehgal * The New York Times Magazine *
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don’t Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody with A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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