Short Black 2 Fat City
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In Fat City, Karen Hitchcock unpicks the idea of obesity as a disease. In a riveting blend of story and analysis, she explores chemistry, psychology and the impulse to excess to explain the West’s growing obesity epidemic.
Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.
Karen Hitchcock is the author of the award-winning story collection Little White Slips and a regular contributor to the Monthly. She is also a staff physician in acute and general medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
Karen Hitchcock
Karen Hitchcock is the author of the award-winning story collection Little White Slips and a regular contributor to the Monthly. She is also a staff physician in acute and general medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brief and outstanding discussion about the epidemic if obesity. An empathetic point of view but not sparing on the causes and consequences of obesity. A passionate call for multiple services to attempt to solve this tragic crisis. Strong words - very motivating.
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Short Black 2 Fat City - Karen Hitchcock
SHORT BLACKS are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.
SHORT BLACKS
1 Richard Flanagan The Australian Disease:
On the decline of love and the rise of non-freedom
2 Karen Hitchcock Fat City
3 Noel Pearson The War of the Worlds
4 Helen Garner Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice
5 John Birmingham
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999
6 Anna Krien Booze Territory
7 David Malouf The One Day
8 Simon Leys Prosper: A voyage at sea
9 Robert Manne
Julian Assange: The cypherpunk revolutionary
10 Les Murray Killing the Black Dog
11 Robyn Davidson No Fixed Address
12 Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow
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Copyright © Karen Hitchcock 2013
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First published in the Monthly, March 2013.
This edition published 2015.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Hitchcock, Karen, author. Fat city / Karen Hitchcock. 9781863957625 (paperback) 9781925203486 (ebook) Short blacks ; no. 2. Obesity–Australia. Weight gain–Australia. 363.850994
Cover and text design by Peter Long.
KAREN HITCHCOCK is a doctor and writer. She is the author of an acclaimed Quarterly Essay, Dear Life, and an award-winning collection of short stories, Little White Slips. She writes a regular column for The Monthly.
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