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Annotated by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine database, "It's a useful book for looking at fat as a social issue, a family issue, and a problem that bears reframing". [12] According to an anonymous reviewer, he believes "Life in the Fat Lane is a life-inspiring book. It deals with real life problems and things ...
Sissy Hankshaw, the novel's protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift. [2] The novel covers various topics, including free love, feminism, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams.
Aliette, in "L. Debard and Aliette", is a young woman, temporarily felled by polio, who falls in love with the older L.Debard. [ 6 ] Bern , in "Delicate Edible Birds", is a daring, attractive, female war correspondent, whose loss of personal honor in the name of the survival of others is an allegory for France herself.
The book was born from the "simple realization" New York City-based Friedman had after studying dogs and their people for decades, a press release shares "Dogs make people’s lives better by ...
Little Birds is Anaïs Nin's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death, [1] but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group "writing pornography for a dollar a day." [2] The book is a collection of thirteen short stories.
Cow is a simple, big-hearted, big-bodied 7-year-old bovine who loves nothing more than playing with her toys. Like any 7-year-old, Cow struggles with problems at school and family life. Image ...
New York Times bestseller (a rarity for a short story collection) Included in the 1998 New York Times Book Review books of the year list in 1998 [1] Winner, Irish Times International Fiction Prize. [2] Village Voice book of the year (1998) Winner, Salon Book Award; The story "People Like That Are the Only People Here" won an O. Henry Award (1998)
Like cats, dogs enjoy giving gifts to people they love. Unlike cats, who tend to present family members with nothing more than dead birds, dogs prefer toys. Of course, this is also a way to ask ...