Bad Behavior

Bad Behavior - Mary Gaitskill

A collection of stories set in 1980s New York, where desire, dislocation and everyday cruelty shape the lives of men and women trying, and often failing, to connect. Gaitskill writes about sex, power and urban loneliness with a frank, caustic eye for what people do to one another.

Urban life under pressure

These stories focus on social exchanges charged with control, imbalance and misread intimacy. The precision of the writing keeps attention on inner lives rather than surface drama.

Desire without sentiment

Sex is not treated as escape or resolution here. It becomes another place where characters test limits, play power games and expose the distance between what they want and what they can reach.

`Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don`t expect it, these stories are a pleasure to read` Alice Munro

`An air of Pinteresque menace hangs over these people`s social exchanges like black funereal bunting ... Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail` Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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