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One Fat Summer

by Robert Lipsyte

1977 152 pages eng

They used to call me Crisco Kid because I was fat in the can... So begins the woeful tale of Bobby Marks, a 200-pound candy-bar nut who hated summertime because he couldn't hide his body fat in heavy clothes. The year was 1957. The month was hot July. That was the summer his friend Joanie goaded …

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