WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang (Editors)
Language: English
Published by Harcourt, Inc., New York, 2003
- Softcover
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**Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Uncorrected Proofs. A very nice copy without flaw. 5 X 8" 267 pages. This anthology of thirty works by some of the best contemporary American writers looks at the perennial American obsession: Fat. From Andre Dubus's delicious story of a young woman more comfortable in her fat body than her thin one to George Saunders's "The 400-pound CEO", this bountiful feast of fiction and poetry will ensure no reader will ever look at fat quite the same way again.
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- Title
- WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
- Author
- Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang (Editors)
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc., New York
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0156029073
- ISBN 13
- 9780156029070
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction : General
("The Fat Girl"), to Tobias Wolff's tale of bonding over pancakes ("Hunters in the Snow"), Dorothy Allison's poem about food and love ("Dumpling Child"), Peter Carey's surreal tale of a fat-man revolution ("The Fat Man in History"), Wesley McNair's poetic celebration "Fat Heaven", and George Saunders's "The 400-pound CEO," this bountiful feast of fiction and poetry will ensure no reader ever looks at fat quite the same way again.
Including stories and poems by
Dorothy Allison
Frederick Busch
Peter Carey
Raymond Carver
Junot Díaz
Andre Dubus
Pam Houston
Jill McCorkle
George Saunders
Tobias Wolff
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About the Author
Donna is a self-described fat-American whose fiction won Case Western's Prestigious Kennedy Prize for the Outstanding Creative Project and appeared in the anthology The Answer My Friend: stories by the people who sell them (Longfellow Press). She lives with her family in Columbus Ohio.
IRA SUKRUNGRUANG is a first generation Thai-American, born and raised in Chicago. He's had stories appear in Witness, Indiana Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and numerous other literary journals.
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