Set in Manhattan's Lower East Side and peopled with working-class drug addicts, intelligent hookers, stable housewives, smug yuppies, and sensually deprived professionals, these stories depict a cruel and tender world where romance and modern perversity go hand in hand
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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.)
Mary Gaitskill, a graduate of the University of Michigan, is also the author of TWO GIRLS FAT AND THIN, A NOVEL. She lives in Marin County, California.
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