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Life-Size (novel)
''Life-Size'' is the debut novel by South African author Jenefer Shute, published in 1992 and is a Literary Guild selection.〔(Fiction Book Review ), ''Publisher Weekly'', 04/01/1992〕 It is a first person account of Josie, a twenty-five-year-old graduate in Economics, suffering from anorexia who is hospitalized in an attempt to stop her from starving herself to death.
==Reception==
*Susan Reynolds writing in the ''Los Angeles Times'' was unsympathetic to the main character "In the end, you might understand Josie, but you still don't like her; Shute has successfully created a character almost beyond empathy. Josie is relentlessly mean-spirited, so alienated that you can hardly feel sorry for her in your haste to get away from her. She takes all the sap out of life, and she does it so actively and aggressively that it's hard to see her as a victim."〔(Through Thick and Thin : ''LIFE-SIZE'', By Jenefer Shute ) LA Times June 14, 1992〕
*In contrast Marek Kohn writing in ''The Independent'' is far more positive: "a mordantly funny novel, though. In addition to its beady-eyed wit, Life-Size offers vital insight, stark and even lyrical by turns, into how anorexia looks from the inside. As a first novel, it is a virtuoso performance. Based on feminist analyses of the condition, as deriving from the tyranny of body images, its translation of theory into character is a notable achievement.〔(A poor thinner: ''Life-size'' - Jenefer Shute ), ''The Independent'', Saturday 05 September 1992〕
*The NYU School of Medicine praises the book's authenticity: "Shute has researched the topic and reveals many of the traits which characterize this illness. The author’s narrative technique aptly conveys the preoccupations of the protagonist; obsessive thinking is well delineated and gives a strong sense of how challenging it must be for caregivers to treat such patients."〔(Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database ) Retrieved 1st Nov 2013〕
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