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ISBN
9780425178904
Book Title
Stick Figure : a Diary of My Former Self
Item Length
7.9in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
2001
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6in
Author
Lori Gottlieb
Features
Reprint
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Topic
Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Women, Personal Memoirs, Eating Disorders & Body Image
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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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.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0425178900
ISBN-13
9780425178904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1579568

Product Key Features

Book Title
Stick Figure : a Diary of My Former Self
Author
Lori Gottlieb
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Women, Personal Memoirs, Eating Disorders & Body Image
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Rc552.A5.G68 2001
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"A smart, funny, compassionate journal of the author's bout with anorexia at age 11." -- Entertainment Weekly "It reads like a novel...absolutely gripping." -- Boston Globe "Compelling...Hopefully, young Gottlieb will stand as a patron saint for girls vulnerable to eating disorders and the adults who should be caring for them." -- Booklist "Poignant...Gottlieb is dead-on about society's irrational attitudes towards women's bodies." -- Washington Post Book World "Lori Gottlieb's approach is compassionate, and very, very funny. More than just a book about anorexia, Stick Figure is an entertaining and thoughtful coming-of-age story that deals with an almost universal theme--negotiating the minefields of early adolescence and living to tell the tale." -- Martha Manning, author of Undercurrents "What happens when a young girl from Beverly Hills trips on the fallacies of family and friends, then gets saturated by society's worship of the too thin? She almost dies...Gottlieb tells all this with an earnest narration that is funny at times but always tragic. And although Lori steps deeper and deeper into her illness, there is no self-pity. The mood is simply: This is what happened to me." -- Seattle Times "Lori Gottlieb's eleven-year-old self is a singular storyteller of unblinking candor and precocious insight. As rife with wry humor as it is lacking in self-pity, this fast-paced chronicle of late-1970s adolescent anorexia is narrated with a light touch, and yet is chilling and poignant in its straightforward simplicity." -- Sarah Saffian, author of Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found " Stick Figure stands out as a fresh, edgy take--not just on anorexia but on that perilous time in a girl's life when she's no longer a child but not quite an adult." -- Entertainment Weekly "Undeniably effective." -- Booklist "[An] authentic voice." -- Francisco Chronicle "Her descriptions of preteen vulnerability and self-consciousness ring true...her diary offers haunting evidence of what little progress we have made." -- Publishers Weekly "By turns earnest and funny, hopeful and tragic, eleven-year-old Lori is a latter-day Alice: She takes us through the distorted looking glass that's held up to young girls and into the harrowing land of eating disorders. There is no other word for it: You will devour this book--and hopefully, keep right on eating." -- Peggy Orenstein, author of School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, "A smart, funny, compassionate journal of the author's bout with anorexia at age 11." - Entertainment Weekly "It reads like a novel…absolutely gripping." - Boston Globe "Compelling…Hopefully, young Gottlieb will stand as a patron saint for girls vulnerable to eating disorders and the adults who should be caring for them." - Booklist "Poignant…Gottlieb is dead-on about society's irrational attitudes towards women's bodies." - Washington Post Book World "Lori Gottlieb's approach is compassionate, and very, very funny. More than just a book about anorexia, Stick Figure is an entertaining and thoughtful coming-of-age story that deals with an almost universal theme-negotiating the minefields of early adolescence and living to tell the tale." - Martha Manning, author of Undercurrents "What happens when a young girl from Beverly Hills trips on the fallacies of family and friends, then gets saturated by society's worship of the too thin? She almost dies…Gottlieb tells all this with an earnest narration that is funny at times but always tragic. And although Lori steps deeper and deeper into her illness, there is no self-pity. The mood is simply: This is what happened to me." - Seattle Times "Lori Gottlieb's eleven-year-old self is a singular storyteller of unblinking candor and precocious insight. As rife with wry humor as it is lacking in self-pity, this fast-paced chronicle of late-1970s adolescent anorexia is narrated with a light touch, and yet is chilling and poignant in its straightforward simplicity." - Sarah Saffian, author of Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found " Stick Figure stands out as a fresh, edgy take-not just on anorexia but on that perilous time in a girl's life when she's no longer a child but not quite an adult." - Entertainment Weekly "Undeniably effective." - Booklist "[An] authentic voice." - Francisco Chronicle "Her descriptions of preteen vulnerability and self-consciousness ring true…her diary offers haunting evidence of what little progress we have made." - Publishers Weekly "By turns earnest and funny, hopeful and tragic, eleven-year-old Lori is a latter-day Alice: She takes us through the distorted looking glass that's held up to young girls and into the harrowing land of eating disorders. There is no other word for it: You will devour this book-and hopefully, keep right on eating." - Peggy Orenstein, author of School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Table of Content
Part 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
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
2001-025190
Dewey Decimal
616.85/263/0092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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  • by xkhaydenx2018
    Aug 06, 2009

    Awesome Book

    I have a friend who is anorexic. I never knew what to tell her up until I read this book. This book was bought 5 years ago and sat on the shelf until a month ago...I read the book within 4 days. This opened my eyes to how my friend felt, and how I should be helping her, rather than just repeating 'you're really skinny.' Even if you aren't looking for a book on how to help anorexics, this book is an amazing read. Each chapter is an actual journal entry from when the author was a young girl, and when compiled together, this diary reads just like a novel.

  • by rlqu0hn3soo@deleted
    Aug 10, 2011

    Great Book for the money!

    Very good book! It was an easy read, but a very compelling look into an 11 year old girl's head as she suffers and beats anorexia.

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