![]() She was beginning, too, the long discovery that would sustain her, that “through writing, I was, finally, able to get respect for the content of my character”. “In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent.” “There is a before and an after,” she writes, in Hunger. One day, when she was 12, a handsome classmate took her on a bike ride to an abandoned shack in the woods where a pack of other boys, fuelled by drink, were waiting. Woe betide the female novelist who tries the same thing.) Above all, on goodness as vulnerability, not least because she knows, in the most visceral way possible, what that can mean. ( Philip Roth novels? Lauded, yet full of unlikable men, she has written. Gay is fascinating on the “goodness” of girls – as a societal requirement, as an often impossible standard on how often being good is a matter of being “one who knows how to play by the rules and cares to be seen to be playing by the rules” who knows how to be liked.
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