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Author Sachs, Marilyn.

Title The fat girl / Marilyn Sachs
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1985
©1984

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 MELB CRC  82J SAC-F  AVAILABLE
Description 168 pages ; 22 cm
Summary SUMMARY: Jeff is at first revolted and then fascinated by the gross, clumsy, and very unhappy fat girl in his ceramics class. He loses his girlfriend while devoting himself to fat Ellen. She loses fifty kilograms and becomes immersed in ceramics, but then realises that she is as imprisoned by Jeff as she was by her obesity
Analysis Fiction in English American writers, 1945- - Texts
Notes Fiction in English. American writers,. 1945- - Texts (BNB/PRECIS)
For adolescents
Originally published: New York : E.P. Dutton, 1984
Audience For 12-15 year old children
Subject Dependency (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
Interest (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Obesity -- Fiction.
Obesity -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
Obesity -- Psychological aspects -- Juvenile fiction.
Pottery craft -- Fiction.
Women -- Suicidal behavior -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Romance fiction.
Fiction.
LC no. bnb19271534
ISBN 0192715348