Bad Behavior
- Author Mary Gaitskill
- Narrator Mary Gaitskill
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 8 March 2016
- Run Time 7 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Short stories.
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What to expect
This is a reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire, which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human connection.
Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it was first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as a sharp, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writer of contemporary literature.
Stories included here are “Daisy’s Valentine,” “A Romantic Weekend,” “Something Nice,” “An Affair, Edited,” “Connection,” “Trying to Be,” “Secretary,” “Other Factors,” and “Heaven.”
Critics Review
u201cStubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you donu2019t expect it.u201d
u201cIntriguingly tartu2026Urban true grit.u201d
u201cPinteresqueu2026Ms. Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real.u201d
u201cThis thirty-year-old collection is much more feminist than most of what weu2019ve got going, even these days. Good thing we can can still read it whenever we want.u201d
u201cGaitskillu2019s characters possess a curious combination of wit and nau00efvetu00e9u2026Her writing has a precision and depth than can charge a dreary setting with significanceu2026Gaitskill has created an intimate and almost beautiful series of images.u201d
u201cThis author concentrates on the inside of her charactersu2019 heads. In the best of these pieces, she looks not so much at the u2018bad behavioru2019 itself as at the consciousness behind it, calmly and clinically charting desires, ideas, and emotions.u201d
u201cA thrilling journey into the deep anxieties of romance and desireu2026Stunning.u201d
u201cFerocious, terrifying stories, skillful as they are scary. Gaitskillu2019s voice and talents are wonderfully new, as honest as rain and as welcome in a long, dry season.u201d
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