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Because They Wanted To

Because They Wanted To

Gaitskill, Mary

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0684841444
ISBN13: 9780684841441
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Feb 27 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.34 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award
A National Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book! From the bestselling author of Veronica, a breathtaking collection of short stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know.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, bestselling author Mary Gaitskill yields twelve indelible portraits of people grappling with the gap between their desires 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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