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Bad Behaviour


A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection

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Short story author Mary Gaitskill spent four years trying to find a publisher for her first book, the short story collection Bad Behavior. Many feared her tales of women dealing with sexuality, sado-masochism, addiction, and prostitution were too transgressive. But that was the point. Bad Behavior depicts women's most taboo instincts and actions in a matter-of-fact manner, one that remains startling almost 40 years after its publication (this is also the collection that includes the story that inspired the movie Secretary!)

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Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection.

(Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)

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