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Bennett, Cherie

Life in the Fat Lane

261 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32274-7
(3) YA When pageant queen Lara begins gaining weight, no amount of dieting and exercise seems to help. It turns out she has a rare disease--so rare it only exists in this novel. The author's use of an imaginary disease to fuel an examination of very real problems subverts any pretensions to seriousness the book might have had; in fact, this is the kind of book that succeeds despite its author's best intentions. Like a two-pound box of chocolates, it's pure guilty pleasure.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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