What Are You Looking At?

This anthology of thirty works by some of our best contemporary American writers looks at our perennial American obsession: fat. It's everywhere all around you and maybe even on you. Now America's consuming passion at last has its own anthology. From Andre Dubus's delicious story of a young woman more comfortable in her fat body than her thin one <br>(The Fat Girl) to Tobias Wolff's tale of bonding over pancakes (Hunters in the Snow) Dorothy Allison's poem about food and love (Dumpling Child) Peter Carey's surreal tale of a fat-man revolution (The Fat Man in History) Wesley McNair's poetic celebration Fat Heaven and George Saunders's The 400-pound CEO this bountiful feast of fiction and poetry will ensure no reader ever looks at fat quite the same way again. <p/>Including stories and poems by<br>Dorothy Allison<br> Frederick Busch <br>Peter Carey<br>Raymond Carver<br>Junot Díaz<br>Andre Dubus<br>Pam Houston<br>Jill McCorkle<br>George Saunders<br>Tobias Wolff <p/>