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Lee Gutkind
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bison Books
Publication date
July 1, 2010
Pages
177
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780803233584
ISBN-10
0803233582
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
0.64 lbs.
Original list price
$17.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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Dubbedâsome would say drubbedâthe âgodfather behind creative nonfictionâ by Vanity Fair, Lee Gutkind takes the occasion of these essays, and the rich material of his own life, to define, defend, and further expand the genre he has done so much to shape. The result is an explosive and hilarious memoir of Gutkindâs colorful life as a motorcyclist, a medical insider, a sailor, a college professor, an overaged insecure father, and a literary whipping boy.
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In Forever Fat Gutkind battles his weight, his ex-wives, his father, his rabbi, his psychiatrist, and his critics in a lifelong cross-country, cross-cultural search for stability and identity. And from Gutkindâs battles, it is the reader who emerges a winner, treated to an engrossing story of the simultaneous awakening of a man and his mission, and of the constant struggle, in literature and in life, to sort out memory and imagination. Here is the universal, symbolic truth that no matter how far you travel, no matter how many years pass, you will never completely shed the weighty baggage of adolescence. Yet, as Gutkind proves again and again, he has learned to describe his burden with an ever-lightening brilliance.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Nebraska Pr (August 1, 2003)
9780803221949 | details & prices | 204 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $26.95
Paperback
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from Bison Books (July 1, 2010)
9780803233584 | details & prices | 177 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Dubbedâsome would say drubbedâthe âgodfather behind creative nonfictionâ by Vanity Fair, Lee Gutkind takes the occasion of these essays, and the rich material of his own life, to define, defend, and further expand the genre he has done so much to shape.
About: Dubbedâsome would say drubbedâthe âgodfather behind creative nonfictionâ by Vanity Fair, Lee Gutkind takes the occasion of these essays, and the rich material of his own life, to define, defend, and further expand the genre he has done so much to shape.
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