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Till the Fat Lady Sings.(Brief Article)

Publishers Weekly

| July 27, 1992 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS

Alisa Kwitney. HarperCollins/Asher, $19 ISBN 0-06-019021-3

This hip debut ruminates on the concept of food as a substitute for love. In satirical, pseudo-profound prose Kwitney skewers her characters, all intentional caricatures, and Columbia University provides an ideal vantage point from which to watch them succumb to insecurities and develop defense mechanisms. Polite, plump, 18-year-old Manya fills her socially empty weekends with bulimic binges. Weekdays, she attends a feminist lit class taught by equally plain, food-obsessed Emilia, …

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