EAN: 9780241464151

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS TWO GIRLS FAT AND THI...

The intense  caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark 
menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe  Guardian Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York 
eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance
journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are isolated. Both are damaged by their pasts.
When Justine interviews Dorothy about her involvement with an infamous and charismatic
philosophical guru  the two women are drawn together with an intense magnetism that throws
their lives off balance. Mary Gaitskill's first novel is an intense  darkly funny and caustic
portrayal of loneliness and the search for intimacy. 'What makes her scary  and what makes her
exciting  is her ability to evoke the hidden life  the life unseen  the life we don't even know
we are living' Parul Sehgal  The New York Times

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