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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 05/11/2020
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ISBN: 9780241464144
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
First published in the late nineties and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers, and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young together stumbling over the foundations of their past, inside are 12 portraits of heart-rending emotional intimacy and the delicacy of relationships. Because They Wanted To is a perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times.
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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 05/11/2020
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ISBN: 9780241464144
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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I really admire how Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.
Eimear McBride
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Gaitskill shares Edith Wharton's forensic awareness of what happens just beneath the surface of high-toned encounters in public places
Independent
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Gaitskill's brand of brainy lyricism, of acid shot through with grace, is unlike anyone else's. And it constitutes some of the most incisive fiction writing around
Meghan O'Rourke, New York Times Book Review
