Because They Wanted To (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Gaitskill
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Obsession, Rape, Lesbianism or lesbians, Fathers, Accidents, Publishing or publishers, Dentistry or dentists, Airplanes or jets, Hospitals, Babysitting or babysitters
In her earlier fiction, Mary Gaitskill examined the frustrations of her characters, usually young New Yorkers, as they tried desperately to find something better in life than unrewarding jobs and unfulfilling relationships. Although there were marked stylistic differences between the short-story collection Bad Behavior (1988), which was much admired for its spare, precise language, and the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), which tended to ramble, both of the books dealt with the need of human beings to connect with one another and their difficulty in doing so. This is...
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