Because They Wanted To
Mary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lovers, families and friends. An unsettling encounter on a plane; a tentative affair between an older woman and a younger man; the chasm between a father and his daughter: each expresses our longing for, and our fear of, human connection.
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- ISBN-13
- 9780141993959
- Genre
- Topics
- Alienation and human connectionRelationships between lovers and familiesLonging and fear of intimacy
Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1998)
Other awarded books from Mary Gaitskill
- Veronica (2016)0 wins · 8 score
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