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  <title>Two Girls Fat and Thin</title>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend highly recommended this book to me and having read and liked her last novel &quot;Veronica&quot; I was eager to read it. Although I found the end of the beginning section to be a bit bland, I couldn't put it down once the book progressed past the initial character explanation phase. Gaitskill's prose is truly beautiful - a sharp contrast to the abject ugliness of her characters. Despite the lurid content which I would describe as neither erotic or sardonic, I did feel empathy for her tortured characters and was sad when the book was over and I would no longer be a part of their strange, cruel world.]]></body>
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