Research Catalog

Title

What are you looking at? : the first fat fiction anthology / edited by Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang.

Publication

Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jarrell, Donna.
• Sukrungruang, Ira

Description

xiv, 274 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Overweight persons > Fiction
• Short stories, American

Genre/Form

Fiction

Note

• "A Harvest original."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Extra extra large / Frederick Busch -- Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Diaz -- Fat enter heaven / Wesley McNair -- Fat girl / Andre Dubus -- Crash diet / Jill McCorkle-- Love for a fat man / Rhoda B. Stamell-- Full figure / Allison Joseph -- Ax of the apostles / Erin McGraw -- Fat / Conrad Hilberry -- Power / Stephen Dunn -- Fat man in history / Peter Carey -- Nouveau big / Katherine Riegel -- Six hundred pound man / Jack Coulehan -- Hungry self / Rebecca Curtis -- Dumpling child / Dorothy Allison -- Fat man / Vern Rutsala -- 400-pound CEO / George Saunders -- Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain / S.L. Wisenberg -- Waltzing the cat / Pam Houston -- I want to be fat / Terrence Hayes --tFor the one man who likes my thighs / Denise Duhamel -- When fat girls dream / J.L. Haddaway -- Ballerina / Sharon Solwitz -- Displaced overweight homemaker's guide to finding a man / Donna Jarrell -- Weight bearing / Patricia Goedicke -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- Fat lady travels / Cathy Smith-Bowers -- Fat people at the amusement park / Rawdon Tomlinson -- Disappearing / Monica Wood -- Fat / Raymond Carver.

ISBN

0156029073 (alk. paper : pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003040633

OCLC

51389079

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library