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Gluttony : the seven deadly sins

Fisher's idiosyncratic defense of one of the great heroes of gluttony, Diamond Jim Brady, whose stomach was six times normal size."--Jacket.

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  • "Fisher's idiosyncratic defense of one of the great heroes of gluttony, Diamond Jim Brady, whose stomach was six times normal size."--Jacket."@en
  • ""In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas about salvation and damnation, health and illness, life and death. Offering a lively smorgasbord that ranges from Augustine's Confessions and Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, to Petronius' Satyricon and Dante's Inferno, she shows that gluttony was in medieval times a deeply spiritual matter, but today we have transformed gluttony from sin into an illness - it is the horrors of cholesterol and the perils of red meat that we demonize. Indeed, the modern take on gluttony is that we overeat out of compulsion, self-destructiveness, or to avoid intimacy and social contact. But gluttony, Prose reminds us, is also an affirmation of pleasure and of passion. She ends the book with a discussion of M.F.K."@en

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  • "Laimargia"
  • "Völlerei : die köstlichste Todsünde"
  • "Gula"
  • "Gula"@es
  • "Gluttony : the seven deadly sins"@en
  • "Gluttony : the seven deadly sins"
  • "Völlerei die köstliche Todsünde"
  • "Gluttony"@en
  • "Gluttony"
  • "Gluttony"@es
  • "Tan chi"
  • "贪吃"
  • "贪吃 = Glutonny"
  • "Gula : los siete pecados capitales"
  • "Gula : los siete pecados capitales"@es
  • "Tan chi = Glutonny"

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