Dietland - Brossura

Walker, Sarai

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544704835 ISBN 13: 9780544704831

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2016

Riassunto

Biding her time alone until she can have weight-loss surgery, Plum joins an underground community of empowered women and agrees to a series of challenges, including work with a group that stages anti-misogyny terrorist acts. 40,000 first printing.

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June 2015 Indie Next Pick  An Amazon Best Book of May 2015 An Amazon Top 20 Best Books of the Year So Far, June 2015 A Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book

"If Amy Schumer turned her subversive feminist sketches into a novel, dark on the inside but coated with a glossy, palatable sheen, it would probably look a lot like Dietland—a thrilling, incendiary manifesto disguised as a beach read...It’s a giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin, no matter its size."—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)

"Read it not only because it’s smart and timely (and shocking: it explicitly takes on the adult film culture as well), but because it’s heartbreaking and tragic and very very comic (as long as you like your laughs dark) and because it will guarantee that you never look at a lipstick or a pair of stilettos or a bathroom scale the same way again. Sarai Walker is some kind of twisted sister. And of course I mean that as the highest possible compliment."—Sara Nelson, Amazon Editors' Top Picks for the Best Books of May "[Ms. Walker's] writing can spit with venom, at the rigid expectations of women’s weight and sexuality...As a social commentary, Dietland is no shrill tirade. Ms. Walker captures the misery of failing to fit in, to fit into the right clothes, to fit in with the right people and their expectations."—Economist

"Witty and wise."—People  "Deft, witty...The cover might look like a breezy beach read, but this is anti-chick-lit for smart chicks."—A.V. Club “Sarai Walker deftly marries body insecurities and humor in her satirical debut.”—US Weekly “Finally, the feminist murder mystery/makeover story we’ve been waiting for.”—O, The Oprah Magazine, One of "10 Titles to Pick Up Now" “Walker’s first novel leaves chick lit in the pixie dust, treading the rougher terrain of radical critique and shadowy conspiracies — territory closer to Rachel Kushner than Helen Fielding.”—New York Magazine, One of Vulture's "8 Books You Need to Read This May" “I've never dropped anyone out of a helicopter. But Dietland resonated with the part of me that wants, just once, to deck a street harasser. At the very least, I wish an incurable itch upon everyone who has catcalled me on the street. I wish food poisoning and public embarrassment on everyone I've heard make a rape joke. I wish toothache and headlice and too-small shoes upon every stranger who has told me to smile. Which is to say, sometimes I forget I'm angry, but I am. Dietland is a complicated, thoughtful, and powerful expression of that same anger.”—Annalisa Quinn, NPR.org "A confident, daring first novel . . . Walker writes beautifully, with natural dialogue and powerful characters. Her first-rate entrance into fiction is sure to spark the conversation she--and Plum--feel their audience needs to have."—Shelf Awareness

June 2015 Indie Next Pick  An Amazon Best Book of May 2015 An Amazon Top 20 Best Books of the Year So Far, June 2015 A Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” book 

“Dietland completely blew me away. It's audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking and I want to grab women on the street and shake them until they promise to read it—and also buy copies for their daughters.” —Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good In Bed, In Her Shoes, and others

"If Amy Schumer turned her subversive feminist sketches into a novel, dark on the inside but coated with a glossy, palatable sheen, it would probably look a lot like Dietland—a thrilling, incendiary manifesto disguised as a beach read...It’s a giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin, no matter its size."—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A) "Read it not only because it’s smart and timely (and shocking: it explicitly takes on the adult film culture as well), but because it’s heartbreaking and tragic and very very comic (as long as you like your laughs dark) and because it will guarantee that you never look at a lipstick or a pair of stilettos or a bathroom scale the same way again. Sarai Walker is some kind of twisted sister. And of course I mean that as the highest possible compliment."—Sara Nelson, Amazon Editors' Top Picks for the Best Books of May "[Ms. Walker's] writing can spit with venom, at the rigid expectations of women’s weight and sexuality...As a social commentary, Dietland is no shrill tirade. Ms. Walker captures the misery of failing to fit in, to fit into the right clothes, to fit in with the right people and their expectations."—Economist

"Witty and wise."—People  "Deft, witty...The cover might look like a breezy beach read, but this is anti-chick-lit for smart chicks."—A.V. Club “Sarai Walker deftly marries body insecurities and humor in her satirical debut.”—US Weekly “Finally, the feminist murder mystery/makeover story we’ve been waiting for.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “Walker’s first novel leaves chick lit in the pixie dust, treading the rougher terrain of radical critique and shadowy conspiracies — territory closer to Rachel Kushner than Helen Fielding.”—New York Magazine "A tale teeming with both sarcasm and honesty...Dietland transports readers to the front lines of the diet wars—a place where body positivity and a gratifying read are guaranteed."—BUST  

L'autore:

SARAI WALKER received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College. Her articles have appeared in national publications, including Seventeen and Mademoiselle, and she served as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves. Dietland is her first novel.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0544704835
• ISBN 13: 9780544704831
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316