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

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 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

Contents:

Extra extra large by Frederick Busch

Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Fat enter heaven by Wesley McNair

Fat girl by Andre Dubus

Crash diet by Jill McCorkle

Love for a fat man by Rhoda B. Stamell

Full figure by Allison Joseph

Ax of the apostles by Erin McGraw

Fat by Conrad Hilberry

Power by Stephen Dunn

Fat man in history by Peter Carey

Nouveau big by Katherine Riegel

Six hundred pound man by Jack Coulehan

Hungry self by Rebecca Curtis

Dumpling child by Dorothy Allison

Fat man by Vern Rutsala

400-pound CEO by George Saunders

Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain by S.L. Wisenberg

Waltzing the cat by Pam Houston

I want to be fat by Terrence Hayest

For the one man who likes my thighs by Denise Duhamel

When fat girls dream by J.L. Haddaway

Ballerina by Sharon Solwitz

Displaced overweight homemaker's guide to finding a man by Donna Jarrell

Weight bearing by Patricia Goedicke

Hunters in the snow by Tobias Wolff

Fat lady travels by Cathy Smith-Bowers

Fat people at the amusement park by Rawdon Tomlinson

Disappearing by Monica Wood

Fat by Raymond Carver

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780156029070
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2003