Bibliographical Description
89.05.W061: Gaitskill – Bad Behavior
BAD BEHAVIOR | MARY GAITSKILL | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House, Inc. | New York
104 leaves, pp. [2] 1–10 11-30 31–32 33-52 53–54 55-73 74–75 76-84 85–86 87-104 105–106 107-130 131–132 133-147 148–149 150-172 173–174 175-203 [3]
Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, May 1989
Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b blank, 1 title-page, 2 imprint, 3 dedication, 4 blank, 5 epigraph, 6 blank, 7 table of contents, 8 blank, 9-203 Bad Behavior: 9-30 ‘DAISY’S VALENTINE’, 31-52 ‘A ROMANTIC WEEKEND’, 53-73 ‘SOMETHING NICE’, 74-84 ‘AN AFFAIR, EDITED’, 85-104 ‘CONNECTION’, 105-130 ‘TRYING TO BE’, 131-147 ‘SECRETARY’, 148-172 ‘OTHER FACTORS’, 173-203 ‘HEAVEN’; χ1b about the author, χ2a- χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover photograph by Benno Friedman; exterior author photo by William Coupon.
Copyright: © 1988. ISBN: 0-679-72327-7 / 9780679723271. Price: $7.95. Bad Behavior was first published by Poseidon Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1988.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (later printing pictured)
Blurbs
- (front cover) Wise beyond her years, utterly unsentimental, Gaitskill is…glorious. – The New York Times Book Review
- Ferocious, terrifying stories, as skillful as they are scary. Gaitskill’s voice and talents are wonderfully new, as honest as rain, and as welcome in a long, dry season. – Alice Adams
- Mary Gaitskill’s territory in this highly acclaimed collection of short stories is the bedrooms of the urban fringe, where tenderness melds with cruelty and pornography with romance. Etched in acid and touched with grace, Bad Behavior shows us rebellious, vulnerable men and women groping for human connection—knowing that any connection is fraught with danger.
- A thrilling journey into the deepest ironies of romance and desire…Stunning. – Frederick Exley, author of A Fan’s Notes
- Gaitskill writes with a razor-sharp brilliance which cuts through our pieties to the raw nerves. – D.M. Thomas
- A breathtaking collection…graceful, brilliant. Gaitskill doesn’t stint in authenticity. Bad Behavior ranks as one of the year’s startling debuts…A literary feast. – Philadelphia Inquirer