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Review title: Because she deflated us
Product review: All I know is that I attended a reading Gaitskill gave from this book in Philadelphia on Valentine's Day, 1997 (I believe her selection was from the title story) and watched her manage to bore an audience of initially appreciative listeners to near-catatonia. It's amusing in retrospect, as Gaitskill happens to be a very attractive woman, dressed that evening in a provocative outfit with fake-leopard-skin gloves, and sexual tension was palpable in the hall as she began to read...and read...and read...The story just wouldn't stop, went here, went there, shapeless and endless and seemingly pointless...and she didn't even read the whole thing. Seriously, you could sense the air leaking from the room, the interest draining from brains, the blood departing from, well, never mind where. It was either a brilliant display of literary blueballing or the most fumbled public event I've ever witnessed. Either way, I've been afraid to pick this book up ever since.
