What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology

Name: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
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ISBN: 9780156029070

ISBN-10: 0156029073

ISBN-13: 9780156029070

Edition: 2003

Authors: Donna Jarrell, Ira Sukrungruang

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This anthology of thirty works by some of our best contemporary American writers looks at our perennial American obsession: fat. It's everywhere, all around you, and maybe even on you. Now, America's consuming passion at last has its own anthology. From Andre Dubus's delicious story of a young woman more comfortable in her fat body than her thin one ("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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/8/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Extra Extra Large



The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao



The Fat Enter Heaven



The Fat Girl



Crash Diet



Love for a Fat Man



Full Figure



Ax of the Apostles



Fat



Power



The Fat Man in History



Nouveau Big



The Six Hundred Pound Man



Hungry Self



Dumpling Child



The Fat Man



The 400-Pound



Big Ruthie Imagines Sex without Pain



Waltzing the Cat



I Want to Be Fat



For the One Man Who Likes My Thighs



When Fat Girls Dream



Ballerina



The Displaced Overweight Homemaker's Guide to Finding a Man



Weight Bearing



Hunters in the Snow



The Fat Lady Travels



Fat People at the Amusement Park



Disappearing



Fat Permissions


Acknowledgments


Contributors