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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsStick Figure: A Diary of My Former Selfby Lori Gottlieb
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An Alternate Selection of the Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club “Although it reads like a novel—a funny, touching, and absolutely gripping novel—Stick Figure is, astonishingly, the diary of Lori Gottlieb in 1978, when, at age 11 and all evidence to the contrary, she decided she was too fat and simply stopped eating…” —Boston Globe Growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1970s, Lori Gottlieb learned the lessons her culture had to teach her—for example, that “no one could ever like a girl with thunder thighs.” Lori took those lessons seriously, and saw her world fall slowly apart as she developed a fierce reluctance to eat—winding up hospitalized when her “diet” took over her life. Fortunately, she recorded the journey in her diary, and her story is funny, slyly insightful, and surprisingly universal. A Los Angeles Times bestseller, Lori’s story is being made into a motion picture film by Martin Scorsese’s company, Carpo Productions. Synopsis:From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted". Martin Scorsese's company, Carpo Productions, has purchased movie rights to Gottlieb's journal. About the AuthorLori Gottlieb, a medical student at Stanford University, is a former Hollywood executive. Her work has appeared in Salon, Slate, and Daily Variety, among other publications. She lives in California. Table of ContentsPart One: Winter 1978 "Who Do You Think You Are, Young Lady?" Captain of Justice Power Paragraph Real Women Don't Eat Dessert Thunder Thighs Sex Education Chameleon Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness "That's My Girl" The Lori Monument Sorry About the Milk Shake, Mr. President Day of Atonement Part Two: Spring 1978 Please Help the Hungry Lactose Intolerant If You Can Pinch an Inch Level F, Section Pink Facts and Figure Shrink Me Absolute Delight Don't Talk with Your Mouth Full Chewing on Air "Hello, Angels... It's Charlie" E Is for Electrolyte Part Three: Summer 1978 Breck Girl Fractions Brownie Camp Cedars Nora Hey, Taxi Shereen's Jeans Life without Andy Gibb Cutting the Fat Secretary School North Star Do Not Resuscitate Stick Figure Eggshells You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin Epilogue Acknowledgments
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