Because They Wanted to: Stories

Because They Wanted to: StoriesA New York Times Notable Book 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, the author of Veronica yields

A New York Times Notable Book

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, the author of Veronica yields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scrb - Scribner MacMillan
Published: 04/04/2016
ISBN: 9780684841441
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.34w x 0.55d
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee

Review Citations: New York Times 03/08/1998 pg. 28
New Yorker (The) 11/09/2015 pg. 78