Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
Meet the Four Horsemen of the Oesophagus: Bill `El Wingador' Simmons, David'Coondog' O'Karma, Eric'Badlands' Booker, Timothy `Eater X' Janus - just a...
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Meet the Four Horsemen of the Oesophagus: Bill `El Wingador' Simmons, David'Coondog' O'Karma, Eric'Badlands' Booker, Timothy `Eater X' Janus - just a few of the stars of one of America's fastest growing sports: competitive eating. In a country in which one third of the population is clinically obese, competitive eating has made the leap from county fairs and paper napkins to stadium arenas. Over the past two years, more than 1.4 million households have tuned in to Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest on ESPN. Beginning with a trip to Japan in search of the elusive (and surprisingly slimline) 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 552 oysters in ten minutes. Wickedly funny and devastatingly insightful, insatiable 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 Jason Fagone 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. Dig in.
Jason Fagone is a writer-at-large for Philadelphia magazine, and he was named one of the "Ten Young Writers on the Rise" by the Columbia Journalism Review. He's a graduate of Pennsylvania State University.