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An edition of Because they wanted to: Stories (1997)

Because they wanted to

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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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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
254

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Short stories, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, short stories (single author)

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Because They Wanted to: Stories
February 27, 1998, Simon & Schuster
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1997, Simon & Schuster
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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.A36 B43 1997, PS3557.A36B43 1997

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Pagination
254 p. ;
Number of pages
254

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OL1006510M
Internet Archive
becausetheywante00gait
ISBN 10
0684808560
LCCN
96046337
OCLC/WorldCat
35714721
Library Thing
17782
Goodreads
1060751

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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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