Escape from the Fat Farm is McIntosh at his most comic and incisive—a riotous memoir in pieces that moves from a surreal weight loss spa to the formative worlds that shaped him. It’s funny, humane, and compulsively readable, perfect for book clubs and readers who crave memoirs that entertain while they illuminate.
“Gorgeous writing! So much of it is lyrical and funny and moving.”
–Lanford Wilson, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“McIntosh’s real-life fictions—droll, poignant, painfully funny satires—find their groove in self-parody. Their hilarious, fractious moments sketch a primal scene in which a “harmless impersonator” steps forth from a menagerie of unreliable narrators.”
–Burt Kimmelman, from his Introduction
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