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The Afterlife Diet
1995
First Published
3.24
Average Rating
247
Number of Pages
The first commercially published fat novel, (or Schmalzroman), this book sold out its first printing in three weeks, and was promptly abandoned by its original publisher. Was this fat-prejudice, or just another example of corporate shit-headedness?
Avg Rating
3.24
Number of Ratings
195
5 STARS
15%
4 STARS
28%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
22%
1 STARS
7%
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Author

Daniel Pinkwater
Author · 90 books
Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an author of mostly children's books and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. He attended Bard College. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater has also illustrated many of his books in the past, although for more recent works that task has passed to his wife Jill Pinkwater.
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