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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A whole lot of infodumpin' goin' on in this one. That said, the narrative was well-constructed and I did find myself caring about the characters, especially Grenville and Hayleigh - it was much harder to get involved with Jeremy and Jemma, as they were mostly there simply as story framing devices and to get across all those infodumps about salt, cholesterol, fat, etc.The infodumps were, at least, highly valuable in terms of combatting the common perceptions of health and wellness as presented by the media, the government, and the diet/pharmaceutical industries - which was the entire point. I would've liked to hear more about the myth that fat people can't be fit, though...it was hinted at with Grenville's first assessment at the fitness club, but never delved into. And, frankly, if you're going to weave fiction with agenda-based nonfiction infodumps, you might as well go all the way. Grant's near future story centres around the gravitas of one's weight. The demand from the government is for people to be thin and the overweight populace has become second class citizens. Fat follows one person from each end of the spectrum, a teenager battling fat in her mind and celebrity fighting his fat more literally. To add credibility to a humourous approach there is a shallow plot mechanic which adds real world research results to back up Grant's message, however the novel's main focus is to entertain. No paragraph is serious, which in some novels wears thin. Grant's persistence with his wit, sarcasm and satire pays dividends, for Fat is very funny, almost uncommonly so. It will produce smirks, if not guffaws and is recommended for everyone, not only Red Dwarf fans. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Rob Grant's new novel is a revelation. After INCOMPETENCE we would all have expected a killingly funny satire. And in its satire of our obsession with body image, of how the media makes us what we are FAT is certainly that. But in its depiction of Grenville, a fat man at his wits end with the need to be thin; of Hayleigh, a teenage girl obsessed with her terror of being fat and of Jeremy, the self-absorbed, self-adoring 'conceptualist' employed to promote the government's new 'Fat Farms' Rob Grant has given us, yes a very, very funny book, but also an immensely moving and personal novel about how we all feel about our bodies. As Grenville deals with the humilation and daily indignity of being fat, as Hayleigh struggles to deal with her anorexia and as Jeremy comes to terms with the dangerous lies at the centre of the government's new health regime FAT takes us on a hilarious and thought-provoking journey through our all-consuming obession with fat. This is a hilariously moving, movingly hilarious novel and marks a massive step-change in Rob Grant's growth as a writer. Here is a hugely commerical new voice in mainstream, high concept, high in poly-saturates, commercial fiction. It's also safe to say that with this new novel, he's writing about what he knows . . . Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The reader might be forgiven for thinking the chef to be of secondary importance to the other two protagonists in the novel, but it is Roberts's culinary travails which land him in a pickle (so to say) and catalyze in a far-reaching chain reaction which introduces us to the other protagonists.
Popstar obsessed Hayley Griffin, and political PR man Jeremy Slank.
Griffin's weight problems and Slank's risque pursuits aside, our obese Gordon Ramsay floors the accelerator to drive the story- and what a story it is.
With Slank running a government financed program to battle obesity, and Roberts musing a revolution led by society's more liberally corpulent members the stage is set for a hilarious showdown.
Highly entertaining, and pure comedy, "Fat" satirizes our commercialization of health to ask whether we are deciding our body weight or someone else. ( )