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Daniel Akst (Author)
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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: San Diego: Harcourt Brace,; First Harvest Edition edition (1996)
  • ISBN-10: 015600514X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156005142
  • ASIN: B000KP3G2O
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,782,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Daniel Akst is a writer whose columns, essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Wilson Quarterly, Slate, Metropolis and many others. He's also the author of two novels and two nonfiction books. He works as an editorial writer at Newsday, on Long Island, where he also writes a weekly column that is distributed by the McClatchy-Tribune news service. For more information, visit www.akst.com.

 

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Erudite and Entertaining, November 1, 2001
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This review is from: St. Burl's Obituary (Paperback)
I've read this book several times and with each rereading find more to admire. It's rare to find a work that is at once original, erudite and unceasingly entertaining. It succeeds on several levels -- as a contemporary allegory, as a character study of the intelligent, funny and tormented-by-his-bulk Burl, and as a rollicking great yarn. Burl's enormous appetite is a terrific metaphor of our consumer society; his journeys through a hilariously gothic America and his virtual death and resurrection are the stuff of great literature.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars utterly funny and thought provoking, October 11, 1998
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This review is from: St. Burl's Obituary (Paperback)
This novel entertained me for as long as I could make the reading last. Please call Joel & Ethan Cohen and have them make a moovie of Burl.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nelmackel, May 25, 2005
This review is from: St. Burl's Obituary (Paperback)
This was a great book. The reviewer 'Gluttony and Tedium' must have read a different book from what i read. I'd love to have dinner with Burl(before his obese-demise), just to share the joy of taste. This book is as good as the movie "The Big Night"--the transforming power of food, both good and bad is profound.
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New York, Burl Bennett, Salt Lake City, Mother Witness, The Tribune, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Joey Gem, Holy Grail, Abraham Alter, Joseph Smith, Long Island, Uncle Lou, Brooklyn Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel, Abe Alter, Janet David Witness, Mort Allen, The Reaper
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