<![CDATA[Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather]]>

false <![CDATA[Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179845883m/962591.jpg 962591 1 <div> Dubbed—some would say drubbed—the “godfather behind creative nonfiction” by Vanity Fair, Lee Gutkind takes the opportunity 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 Gutkind’s colorful life as a motorcyclist, a medical insider, a sailor, a college professor, an over-aged insecure father, and a literary whipping boy. 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 Gutkind’s battles, the reader emerges a winner, treated to a sometimes poignant, sometimes harrowing, sometimes uproarious, and always 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, enacted in technicolor terms, is the universal, symbolic truth that no matter how far you travel, over how many years, 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. </div> 947492 3 9 2003 Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather total:8|5:2|4:2|3:1|2:3| 8 27 12 0 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 08:07:41 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 31 17:04:03 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 08:07:41 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 28 23:40:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 23:40:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 26 18:35:47 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 18:35:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 17 11:54:20 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 11:54:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 17 22:55:35 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 22:55:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jul 12 06:48:13 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 06:48:13 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat May 03 19:04:21 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 19:04:21 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Feb 06 13:58:17 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 13:58:17 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Fri Dec 21 21:31:58 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 21:31:58 -0800 2007 2 0 false false Tue Sep 04 06:50:19 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 06:50:19 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Fri Aug 03 13:57:38 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 13:57:38 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Tue Jul 03 15:44:43 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 15:44:43 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=962591