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The novel's working title, Gypsy Pie, became the name of the book's 27th chapter. [1] Thinner was published in November 1984 as the fifth book by Richard Bachman. It was Bachman's first book to be published in hardcover. In May of that year, the book was presented at the American Booksellers Association Convention as a featured title. The novel ...
Life in the Fat Lane has received many positive reviews by Publishers Weekly, Amazon Books, and Good Reads. Publishers Weekly said, "Reading this often artificial novel for insight into [issues of weight, self-image and beauty] is a little like eating peanut M&M's for the protein, but it's a similarly addictive experience". [10]
Discussing the book on NPR, Manne said that she uses the word "fat" as a means of reclamation in order to shift the word's definition to mere description rather than an insult or pejorative: "I see the word 'fat' as describing one way of having a body that is part of natural, normal, and in fact, valuable human variation. And so I use it much ...
Thinner (marketed as Stephen King's Thinner) is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Michael McDowell and Holland. The film is based on Stephen King's 1984 novel of the same name (which he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) and stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna.
Dionne published her first book, Fat Girls Deserve Fairy Tales Too: Living Hopefully On the Other Side of Skinny, in 2019 under Seal Press. Her first middle grade book, Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, was published by Viking Books and released on April 21, 2020. [2]
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"Fat and Thin" (Russian: Толстый и тонкий, romanized: Tolstyj i tonkyj) is a satirical short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the No. 40, 1 October 1883 issue of Oskolki magazine, signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте).