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  Insatiable: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream (Paperback) By (author) Jason Fagone

  

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  Short Description for InsatiableUses the sport of competitive eating as a lens to examine the dark side of the American Dream - the never-ending quest for wealth, celebrity, possessions, and food. This book also presents the human stories at the heart of this seemingly unnourished corner of American culture.
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  • Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
  • Published: 04 July 2006
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Sport
  • ISBN 13: 9780224076807 ISBN 10: 0224076809
  • Sales rank: 1,001,683

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• Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Eric 'Badlands' Booker, and Timothy 'Eater X' Janus are just a few of the stars of one of America's fastest growing sports: competitive eating. In a country in which a third of the population is clinically obese, competitive eating has made the leap from trestle tables and paper napkins to stadium arenas - in the past two years, more than 1.4 million households have tuned in to Nathan's hot dog contest on ESPN. Beginning with a trip to Japan in search of the elusive (and surprising slim-line) champion Takeru Kobayashi and ending up at the sport's annual grand finale in Coney Island, Jason Fagone spends a year with the stars of the scene, watching as they eat their way into (or out of) oblivion, and finding out just what compels a 'gurgitator' to force down forty-six dozen oysters in ten minutes. Wickedly funny and devastatingly insightful, Jason Fagone uses this weirdest of sports as a lens through which to examine the dark side of the American Dream - the never-ending quest for wealth, celebrity, possessions and food. And along the way, he uncovers the wonderfully human stories at the heart of this seemingly unnourished corner of American culture. Bigger, better, richer, fatter, "Insatiable" unlocks a world we all need to face up to.