Gaitskill, Mary
Two Girls, Fat and Thin (Penguin Modern Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241464151
- author:
- Gaitskill, Mary
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.8 centimeters (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Darkly funny and caustic, Mary Gaitskill's first novel is an intense portrayal of loneliness and the search for intimacy. Fat and thin, two isolated women are drawn together with an intense magnetism that throws their lives off balance. Dorothy, a proofreader living alone in New York, and Justine, a freelance journalist, have both been damaged by their pasts. When Justine interviews Dorothy about her involvement with a charismatic philosophical guru, the two women form a connection that is both captivating and unsettling. Mary Gaitskill's writing evokes the hidden life, the life unseen, and the life we don't even know we're living. This is a story of intense human connection and its consequences.
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