Mary Gaitskill

This captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill's "fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors" (The New York Times Book Review) create a haunting and unforgettable journey into the dark side of contemporary life and the deepest recesses of the soul.

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Two Girls, Fat and Thin

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so much more than pretty that "pretty" would demean features that to me were the fine articulation of her deop internal life, which made meaningless the social concept

“She was lonely, desperately so, she could feel the loneliness scraping along her insides every time she witnessed the slightest display of human wanth between strangers. But Justine had a hard little spiny pride that stiffly forbade her to talk with people solely out of loneliness, and she wasn't drunk enough to ignore it.”

“One of my succession of therapists used to say that "the body remembers everything," meaning that on some level so deep you don't even know about it, you've stored compressed yet vivid details of everything that's ever happened to you, including, she was later to assert, everything in your past lives. This could be true, I guess, but these bodily memories are so unevenly submerged and revealed, so distorted— as the deficient yard is garnished...”

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