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Big Girl
By:Bestsellers - Books USA Press
Published on 2010-03-01 by

In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter’s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoria’s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as “our tester cake.” With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoria’s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her father’s “big girl,” and her mother’s constant disapproval is equally unkind.When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point. Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself. From the Hardcover edition.

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(Please realize that many a sic are intended in the following reviews.) their really difficult and silly! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that book is good! There you've it. Refreshingly, not really a evaluation published in among the witch's comments or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal scream unleashed into the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of exactly the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... which can be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it was designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every single character for a few pages). None of us had browse the play before. None folks wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. This compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the author and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to read a play then you definitely have sinned and will hell, in the event that you rely on hell. If not, you're going to the DMV. I am also tired of all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a note overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, it appears offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow in your small linguistic rules. Artistic phrase will certainly free of charge alone however you are probably trying to shackle it. 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Once throughout an excellent although, when you're getting neck-deep throughout dandified pomo hijinks, it's a good wallow inside pig dog pen that you are itchin'for. Appreciate it, Jo. I like your in vain learning during similes which won't be able to technique the bilious hatred as part of your heart. You will be my own, plus I'm yours. Figuratively discussing, connected with course. And today and here is my assessment: Macbeth through William Shakespeare is a good literary do the job from the British language, along with anyone that disagrees can be an asshole including a dumbhead.