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"Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's 'Better Body Through the Arts' summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, 'Foxbaby (sic)'--Cover p. [4].

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7 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    University of Queensland Pr (Australia) · 9780702220234
  • Other · English · 2010
    Foxybaby A Novel
    Persea Books · 261 pages · 9780892553631
  • Other · English · 1987
    Foxybaby
    Penguin · 261 pages · 9780140099140
  • Other · English · 1986
    Foxybaby (Contemporary American Fiction)
    Penguin (Non-Classics) · 272 pages · 9780140083804
  • Other · English · 1985
    Foxybaby
    University of Queensland Press · 261 pages · 9780702218361
  • Other · English · 1985
    Foxybaby
    Viking · 261 pages · 9780670807291
Fiction, generalFictionMiddle-aged womenAuthorsCollege theaterOverweight persons