It’s gritty and her prose is beautiful at the same time which leads to a lovely and gross and unique combination. How does it manifest later, impact our lives, personalities, decisions, our sexuality?


Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 . Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of 0684843129 This book is just so realistic! Paperback (Reprint) $ 19.99.

Not only because of the huge resurgence of The popularity of Ayn Rand and libertarians in politics in the last decade (even though this book was written in 1991) but because it follows two very different women - “fat” and “thin” - and discusses their similarities and their personal relationships and what made them be the way that they are while also critiquing the dogmatic principles of Libertarianism without actually saying them because it’s fiction! Wow, sorry for the mixed metaphors but you get the picture.
$19.99. The narrators dual voice co-alesced as the main characters took shape. And oddly comforting. Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish.The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut,

These are the big questions.yeah this book really wrecked me in an important way even though I can't articulate how yetI've been meaning to read this, Mary Gaitskill's first novel, since it came out in the early nineties - I was a huge fan of her short story collection I've been meaning to read this, Mary Gaitskill's first novel, since it came out in the early nineties - I was a huge fan of her short story collection Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Gaitskill's "girls" in this novel are developed through vignettes about their childhoods interspersed with present interactions between themselves and with others. Her observations are incisive, honest, vicious, hilarious, and penetrating. NOOK Book. But they also seem familiar somehow, and sympathetic even when they should be unlikeable.

Two Girls Fat and Thin has been added to your Cart Add to Cart. by Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. I can't say I would read this book again, but I can say it has stayed with me, and that her writing - with its searing honesty, its lucidity, its raw pain and its attention to the craft in each sentence - has informed and improved my own.ayn rand fans AND haters, shrinks, and survivors of child abuseIn the first 3 pages of this book, i was ready to put it down. TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN. Gaitskill has a predilection for the eerie blurriness of sexuality, the place where tenderness and pathology intersect, and loneliness lies down with brutality. This book is disgustingly and disturbingly good. What draws the two girls of the title together is the popular philosopher Anna Granite (a thinly disguised version of Ayn Rand). Despite dramatic differences in class and family life, both women have been victimized: Dorothy by her sexually abusive father, and Justine by her emotionally damaging parents—cool and distant, and oh-so liberal-minded. All Rights Reserved.

Justine is a part-time journalist who places an ad looking for devotees of the novelist Anna Granite and her philosophy of Definitism – very thinly veiled stand-ins for Ayn Rand and Objectivism. $7.90. This book reminded me of Cruddy, Atonement and Autobiography of a Face in the sheer honesty of its take on the strangeness, wonder, and isolation of being a kid. It's dark, but very good.I read this years ago and stil remember the almost visceral power of Gaitskill's style. Dali and Others (Reynal & Hitchcock, p. 138), whose critical brilliance is well adapted to this type of satire. (Her second novel, Veronica, is a diamond.) (Prices may vary for AK and HI.) With the caveat that I would probably not choose to read this a second time: this is a dense, dark, dramatic (but not unrealistic) look at the traumas of girlhood, in all of their forms.



Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The narrators dual voice co-alesced as the main characters took shape. This book is structurally flawed, but I think the flaw is due to her focus and the material and probably unavoidable. Buy Two Girls, Fat and Thin 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed by Gaitskill, Mary (ISBN: 9780684843124) from Amazon's Book Store. more like a 2.5. admired the writing but not crazy about the storyHow do we process trauma & abuse?

Gaitskill has a predilection for the eerie blurriness of sexuality, the place where tenderness and pathology intersect, and loneliness lies down with brutality. Her stories and novels are frightening, dark, and revealing. by

And I guess it sort of is, but I think that these descriptions do not do it justice.I had some fixed ideas about what this book would be about when I started it. But they also seem familiar somehow, and sympathetic even when they should be unlikeable. 0553550047 - Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Gaitskill, Mary - AbeBooks Dorothy idolises the memory of her only lover, a married man, and exists in a state of isolation, splendid or tragic depending on how you see it. There is also a very funny and painfully believable send up of Ayn Rand and her appeal. I loved this book.I picked this book up as a freebie from a book swap place. Kin “[find] each other’s lives inscrutable” in this rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed.

Her characters are often cruel, scared, ugly, and in pain. I have read this book at least four or five times and don't doubt that I'll read it again.I love Mary Gaitskill.


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