Fat Girl: A True Story

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		Fat Girl: A True Story
		Fat Girl: A True Story

基本信息·出版社：Hudson Street Pr, US
·页码：208 页
·出版日期：2005年01月
·ISBN：1594630097
·条形码：9781594630095
·版本：2005-01-27
·装帧：精装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：胖女孩

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Book Description
Each morning Judith Moore weighs herself. She is fat. She has tried everything from the rice diet to three-day juice fasts -food has come to dominate her life, her relationships and her self-image. This is the story of a woman's hunger for food, for love and respect- the story of an absentee father, a mother who viewed her with disgust, and of the cruelty of her classmates. But this is not a cry for sympathy: it is a brilliant, harrowing account of what it means to be fat.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.2
作者简介 Judith Moore is a writer and editor who lives in San Diego. Her previous book Never Eat Your Heart Out (a New York Times Memorable Book of the Year) made the reader understand that writing about food is really writing about life.
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Judith Moore''s breathtakingly frank memoir, Fat Girl, is not for the faint of heart. It packs more emotional punch in its slight 196 pages than any doorstopper confessional. But the author warns us in her introduction of what''s to come, and she consistently delivers. "Narrators of first-person claptrap like this often greet the reader at the door with moist hugs and complaisant kisses," Moore advises us bluntly. "I won''t. I will not endear myself. I won''t put on airs. I am not that pleasant. The older I get the less pleasant I am. I mistrust real-life stories that conclude on a triumphant note.... This is a story about an unhappy fat girl who became a fat woman who was happy and unhappy." With that, Moore unflinchingly leads us backward into a heartbreaking childhood marked by obesity, parental abuse, sexual assault, and the expected schoolyard bullying. What makes Fat Girl especially harrowing, though, is Moore''s obvious self-loathing and her eagerness to share it with us. "I have been taking a hard look at myself in the dressing room''s three-way mirror. Who am I kidding? My curly hair forms a corona around my round scarlet face, from the chin of which fat has begun to droop. My swollen feet in their black Mary Janes show from beneath the bottom hem of the ridiculous swaying skirt. The dressing room smells of my beefy stench. I should cry but I don''t. I am used to this. I am inured." Moore''s audaciousness in describing her apparently awful self ensures that her reader is never hardened to the horrors of food obsession and obesity. And while it is at times excruciatingly difficult bearing witness to Moore''s merciless self-portraits, the reader cannot help but be floored by her candor. With Fat Girl, Moore has raised the stakes for autobiography while reminding us that our often thoughtless appraisals of others based on appearances can inflict genuine harm. It''s a painful lesson well worth remembering. --Kim Hughes

From Publishers Weekly
In her memoir of growing up fat, Moore, who previously wrote about food in Never Eat Your Heart Out, employs her edgy, refreshingly candid voice to tell the story of a little girl who weighed 112 pounds in second grade; whose father abandoned her to a raging, wicked mother straight out of the Brothers Grimm; whose lifelong dieting endeavors failed as miserably as her childhood attempts to find love at home. As relentless as this catalogue of beatings, humiliation and self-loathing can be, it''s tolerable—even inspiring in places—because Moore pulls it off without a glimmer of self-pity. The book does have some high points, especially while Moore is stashed at the home of a kind uncle who harbors his own secrets, but the happiest moments are tinged with dread. Who can help wondering what will become of this tortured and miserable child? Alas, Moore cuts her story short after briefly touching on an unsatisfying reunion with her father and her two failed marriages. The ending feels hurried, but perhaps the publication of this book will give Moore''s story the happy ending she deserves.
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From The New Yorker
Hendra, a British satirist, is perhaps best known as the band manager in the movie "This Is Spinal Tap." His spiritual memoir begins with his affair, at the age of fourteen, with a married woman. Discovered by her husband, a terrified Hendra agrees to accompany him to a monastery on the Isle of Wight. There he meets Father Joe, whose gigantic ears complement his keen emotional intuition. Hendra is overwhelmed by Father Joe''s gentle prodding and by the timelessness of the monastic day, and so begins the great tension in his life—whether to join the abbey or remain in the larger world, a world that eventually includes life on the fringes of the Monty Python crowd. Hendra loses his faith and develops some bad habits—drink, drugs, screenwriting—but he never loses his connection to Father Joe, and the soul-scraping honesty of his meditation on faith and friendship is a testament to the monk''s continuing influence.
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From Booklist
Moore''s memoir focuses on the "curse" of obesity that has plagued her throughout her life. Given a father who overate and deserted her when she was four and a mother who regularly beat her, one finds no surprise when Moore turns to food for comfort and as a way to sublimate other appetites. Of course, as her vivid writing reveals, obsessions with food and angst over excess avoirdupois are too complex to yield a deterministic answer. Moore''s characters stick in readers'' minds: a talented mother whose own mother never failed to criticize; an absent, food-obsessed father too guilty to contact his daughter till she was married and pregnant; a generous, nonjudgmental upstairs neighbor who let Moore devour her larder while the neighbor went on an extended trip; and a gay music-teacher uncle who gave Moore the most normal, loving home she knew. Moore struggles with her weight and her barren relationships, never coming to terms with her body image. Poignant, deeply felt, remarkably funny, Moore''s memoir will resonate with anyone who''s ever lived with self-hatred. Mark Knoblauch
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