Dubbed-some would say drubbed-the "godfather behind creative
nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, Lee Gutkind takes the opportunity of
these essays, and the rich material of his own life, to define,
defend, and further expand the genre he has done so much to shape.
The result is an explosive and hilarious memoir of Gutkind's
colorful life as a motorcyclist, a medical insider, a sailor, a
college professor, an over-aged insecure father, and a literary
whipping boy. In Forever Fat Gutkind battles his weight, his
ex-wives, his father, his rabbi, his psychiatrist, and his critics
in a lifelong cross-country, cross-cultural search for stability
and identity. And from Gutkind's battles, the reader emerges a
winner, treated to a sometimes poignant, sometimes harrowing,
sometimes uproarious, and always engrossing story of the
simultaneous awakening of a man and his mission, and of the
constant struggle, in literature and in life, to sort out memory
and imagination. Here, enacted in technicolor terms, is the
universal, symbolic truth that no matter how far you travel, over
how many years, you will never completely shed the weighty baggage
of adolescence. Yet, as Gutkind proves again and again, he has
learned to describe his burden with an ever-lightening brilliance.
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