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Because They Wanted to: Stories - Hardcover

Gaitskill, Mary

 
9780684808567: Because They Wanted to: Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0684808560 ISBN 13: 9780684808567
Verlag: Scribner, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Gaitskill's complex, urgent characters struggle with the disparity between what they want and what they know. Longing for emotional connection, they often mistake debasement for passion, manipulation for affection, cruelty for intensity. In "Tiny, Smiling Daddy," a father suffers his ambivalent love for a daughter who has betrayed him - perhaps justly. In "The Girl on the Plane," a disillusioned salesman must face his participation in a brutal act he has almost forgotten. In "Kiss and Tell," a writer seeks revenge on a woman who rejected him, only to find that once he has achieved it, he no longer wants it. In "The Wrong Thing," a lonely, emotionally injured woman involved in a set of skewed, apparently trivial sexual encounters unexpectedly discovers her own life-giving reserve of humility, gentleness, and compassion.

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Mary Gaitskill is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Houston.

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Verlag
Scribner
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0684808560
ISBN 13 
9780684808567
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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