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"Gaitskill's second collection is a return to the themes of her first, 'Bad Behavior' (1988): Bad girls misbehave and end up as profiles in sexual pathology. For all their naughty sex talk, there's very little pleasure--Gaitskill's women are too brittle and nervous, forever exhausted by their unusual tastes, to take much relish in life....Gaitskill continues to explore the margins of human sexuality in stories distinguished by their strange terrain rather than by their exceptional skill."Gaitskill, Mary is the author of 'Because They Wanted to Stories', published 1998 under ISBN 9780684841441 and ISBN 0684841444.
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