Waisted : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1501131397
- ISBN: 9781501131394
- ISBN: 1501131389
- ISBN: 9781501131387
- ISBN: 1501131389 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781501131387 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781501131387 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1501131389
- ISBN: 9781501131394 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1501131397
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Physical Description:
275 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers. Alice and Daphne, both successful working mothers, both accomplished and seemingly steady, harbor the same secret: obsession with their weight overshadows concerns about their children, husbands, work--and everything else of importance in their lives. Scales terrify them. Daphne, plump in a family of model-thin women, learned at her mother's knee that only slimness earns admiration. Alice, break-up skinny when she met her husband, risks losing her marriage if she keeps gaining weight. The two women meet at Privation. Located in a remote Vermont mansion, the program promises fast, dramatic weight loss, and Alice, Daphne, and five other women are desperate enough to leave behind their families for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The catch? They must agree to always be on camera; afterward, the world will see Waisted: The Documentary . The women soon discover that the filmmakers have trapped them in a cruel experiment. With each pound lost, they edge deeper into obsession and instability...until they decide to take matters into their own hands. |
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Subject: | Overweight women Fiction Female friendship Fiction Documentary films Fiction Body image Social aspects Fiction Families Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC MEYERS (Text) | 34014141722588 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Mey (Text) | 33180141808791 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | F MEYERS (Text) | 31953142949596 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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New Milford Public Library | F MEYER (Text) | 34021130837046 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Newfield Branch - Bridgeport | FIC MEYERS (Text) | 34000081473837 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oxford Public Library | FIC MEY (Text) | 33530144398317 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Waisted : A Novel
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Author Notes
Waisted : A Novel
Randy Susan Meyers is the internationally bestselling author of five novels, including Waisted , The Widow of Wall Street , Accidents of Marriage , The Comfort of Lies , and Th e Murderer's Daughters . Her books have been designated one of the ten best works of fiction in 2010, 2014, and 2017 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. She lives in Boston with her husband, where she teaches writing at the GrubStreet writing center. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-six languages.