Two Girls, Fat and Thin

mary gaitskill

Justine, a beautiful, lonely, sexually addicted young woman, meets Dorothy, fat, maladjusted, and unhappy since childhood. They are superficially a study in contrasts yet share equally haunting sexual burdens carried since youth. With common secrets, they are drawn into a remarkable friendship.

Genres fictionnovelscontemporaryliterary fictionliterature20th centuryunfinishedamericannew yorkfeminism

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1991

This edition

Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published: February 27, 1998 by Simon Schuster
ISBN: 9780684843124
ASIN: 0684843129
Language: English

About the author

mary gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. As of 2005, she lived in New York City; Gaitskill has previously lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Marin County, CA, as well as attending the University of Michigan where she earned her B.A. and won a Hopwood Award. Gaitskill has recounted (in her essay "Revelation") becoming a born-again Christian at age 21 but lapsing after six months.