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    Short Black 2 Fat City
    Short Black 2 Fat City
    Short Black 2 Fat City
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    Short Black 2 Fat City

    By Karen Hitchcock

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    I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. “Nothing,” he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: “I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I’m addicted to eating. I’m addicted.” He punches his thigh.

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Inc. Books
    Release dateSep 23, 2015
    ISBN9781925203486
    Short Black 2 Fat City
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    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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      Brief 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

    Published by Black Inc.,

    an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd

    37–39 Langridge Street

    Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia

    enquiries@blackincbooks.com

    www.blackincbooks.com

    Copyright © Karen Hitchcock 2013

    Karen Hitchcock asserts her right to be known as the author of this work.

    First published in the Monthly, March 2013.

    This edition published 2015.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior consent of the publishers.

    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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