Take a photo of a barcode or cover
tamryn_spruill 's review for:
Bad Behavior
by Mary Gaitskill
The pleasure of pain. The pain of pleasure. Life: miscues, missed opportunities, and misguided attempts to find happiness.
A favorite passage:
"It was true that in the summer the air shaft had an oddly poetic aspect. On days when the apartment air was heavy and stifling as a swamp, noises and smells came floating up it on clouds of heat, lyrical blends of voice and radio scraps, drifting arguments and amorous sighs, the fried shadow of someone's dinner, a faded microcosm that lilted into their apartment and related them to everyone else in the building." (164)
A favorite passage:
"It was true that in the summer the air shaft had an oddly poetic aspect. On days when the apartment air was heavy and stifling as a swamp, noises and smells came floating up it on clouds of heat, lyrical blends of voice and radio scraps, drifting arguments and amorous sighs, the fried shadow of someone's dinner, a faded microcosm that lilted into their apartment and related them to everyone else in the building." (164)