This is a reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior - powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire, which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human connection.Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it was first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as a sharp, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writer of contemporary literature.Stories included here are Daisy’s Valentine, A Romantic Weekend, Something Nice, An Affair, Edited, Connection, Trying to Be, Secretary, Other Factors andHeaven.