A Lot Like You (Signed)

Judith Pinsker

ISBN 10: 0553054457 / ISBN 13: 9780553054453

Published by Bantam Books, Toronto and New York, 1988

About this Item

First Edition (Number Line to 1). Signed and inscribed by the author, Judith Pinsker, on the first front end paper. Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy for sale anywhere on the Internet. Moreover, it will be the Only signed copy of any of the author's books for sale on the Internet. This was also her first book, her first novel. Ms. Pinsker was for many years a writer on three television soap operas, Ryan's Hope, General Hospital, and Another World. She won five Daytime Emmys for Best Writing on Ryan's Hope, another one for General Hospital, and she received two nominations for Another World. As you can see from the photos, the covers of the book are very clean. They are also in very nice condition with only very minor wear. The book is square, not slanted, and very solidly bound from cover to cover, absolutely no binding issues. The interior the book is in superior condition. It is exceptionally clean. I didn't see any soiling at all. There are no creases and no dogeared corners. There are no markings. No attachments. And with the exception of the author's signed inscription (dated April 7, 1988), no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. I've rated it Very Good Minus mainly due to the tiny tear on the front cover just adjacent to the spine. There's also a little bit of scuffing at the spine top and bottom edges, and at the top right-hand corner of the front cover. The rear cover is in very good condition. The jacket is very clean. That includes the flaps which are also in very good condition. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Lot Like You (Signed)
• Publisher: Bantam Books, Toronto and New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553054457
• ISBN 13: 9780553054453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Children's Books or Juvenile Fiction
  • One-Of-A-Kind

About this title

Synopsis

An obese fifteen-year-old receives a shock when she returns to school in the fall and finds that her formally thin heartthrob has gained a lot of weight following the death of his mother in an automobile crash.

Reviews

Grade 6-10 Overweight sophomore Bo ``Butter'' Barrett has but one reason to look forward to the start of the school yearseeing Howard Nevelson again, school heart throb who befriended her the spring before and has since lost his mother in a tragic car accident. But when the be loved Howard returns, he has become a hunk of a different nature, having gained weight over the summer. Misunderstood by the ``in'' crowd, Howard seeks out a more-than-willing Bo and they form an al liance known around school as the Blub ber Couple. Torn between her need for Howard's companionship and the desire to transform him back into the specimen he once was, Bo finally learns to accept the new Howard and their relationship, but only after an embarrassing and dan gerous incident at Howard's former girl friend's holiday party. There is nothing re markable about this book, despite the po tential of its story line, and there are more than a few disappointments. The charac ters' language is of the 1970speople go ing ``out of their gourd'' and being ``fruity.'' The cover illustration depicts two svelte beauties, albeit smothered in winter garb, and readers are sure to won der who they aresurely not Howard and Bo. Most lacking is insight into why each is overweight, their feelings about the con dition, and the efforts of those around them to make them reduce, as is done so expertly in Wersba's Crazy Vanilla (Harper, 1986). Without this window into the characters, this is just a story, and not a particularly interesting one. Joanne Aswell, Hunterdon County Library, Flem ington, N.J.
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Bo has long accepted the fact that she is fat. Then handsome Howard returns to school following a family tragedyhis mother has been killed in a car accident. He is seriously overweight, and when he and Bo become better acquainted, she sees their friendship primarily as an opportunity to help Howard return to "normal." Only after an explosive scene does Bo grant that Howard's feelings for her may be genuine and agree to base their relationship on who he is, not on who she thinks he should be. This is a refreshingly different tack for a YA novel to take but one that ultimately falls short of its mark. Pinsker tells the story with humor and sensitivity, but Bo's lack of self-awareness is not always credible, given the many sophisticated perceptions she voices, and readers are not given sufficient insight as to Howard's motives. Ages 11-up.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.