Fat (Gollancz Sf S.)
by Rob Grant
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Author: Rob GrantEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-27
ISBN: 0575074205
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Gollancz
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Book Review: Brilliant Satire
Summary: 4 Stars
Rob Grant has written a polemic on the way goverments use key issues first to scare us, then to make themselves look capable, and finally to get themselves re-elected.
Instead of lecturing us, Grant tells a funny story through the eyes of four characters.
At one end of the Fat scale is Grenville, the lardy chef, who is now too large to shop off the peg. He is fired for being too fat in a near future world where the Fat pay more because they cost money in airline fuel and train space.
At the other end is Hayleigh, the boy band obsessed anorexic, for whom all life revolves around the need to avoid food at all costs.
In the middle are Jeremy, the PR guy who has to sell the idea of Fat concentration camps to the nation, and his love interest, who is our speaking book on epidemiology and everything we need to know about fat and nutrition and other Government cons.
This book taught me a lot about the problems of being fat, anger management, anorexia nervosa, boiling eggs, PR and body odour in boy bands. But the best thing was that the book is so funny, it made me laugh out loud on many occasions. A great read, impossible to put down. Very well written.
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