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y separately published work icon Fat Chance single work   novel   young adult  
Is part of Lisa Series Margaret Clark , 1993 series - author novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Fat Chance
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Fourteen year old Lisa wants to lose weight and dreams of becoming a world-famous model -- but how can she when she feels that she's a social outcast as she has to work weekends on her mother's hot dog stand.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 1993 .
      Extent: 188p.
      ISBN: 0091827663
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2011 .
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      Extent: 192p.p.
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      • Published 26 October 2011.

      ISBN: 9781742746906
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Little Breaks Sarah Walker , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , September 2022; (p. 42-44) 'ONCE WE’VE PEELED OFF the wetsuits and packed up the boards, we are quiet. The car ride home is scored with the sound of sniffing, as though in grief, though it is really the ocean emptying out of our sinuses. There is no need for speech. It is a soft quiet, a golden quiet. In the driver’s seat, my partner is thinking about his turns, the way he twisted his body to pull the board against the wave, flitting up the fist of the sea. Next to him, I am thinking about how, one day, I might be able to stand up without screaming. I am what surfers refer to as a kook, which is to say: I am terrible at surfing. In every possible way, I am an embarrassment to the art of standing on the ocean. I was terrible at it when I started, and I am terrible at it now, and I love it.' (Introduction)
Untitled Vicki Bowden , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 7)
— Review of Fat Chance Margaret Clark , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Cathryn Crowe , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 9 no. 3 1994; (p. 31)
— Review of Fat Chance Margaret Clark , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 38 no. 1 1994; (p. 25)
— Review of Fat Chance Margaret Clark , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 38 no. 1 1994; (p. 25)
— Review of Fat Chance Margaret Clark , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Cathryn Crowe , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 9 no. 3 1994; (p. 31)
— Review of Fat Chance Margaret Clark , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Vicki Bowden , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 7)
— Review of Fat Chance Margaret Clark , 1993 single work novel
Little Breaks Sarah Walker , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , September 2022; (p. 42-44) 'ONCE WE’VE PEELED OFF the wetsuits and packed up the boards, we are quiet. The car ride home is scored with the sound of sniffing, as though in grief, though it is really the ocean emptying out of our sinuses. There is no need for speech. It is a soft quiet, a golden quiet. In the driver’s seat, my partner is thinking about his turns, the way he twisted his body to pull the board against the wave, flitting up the fist of the sea. Next to him, I am thinking about how, one day, I might be able to stand up without screaming. I am what surfers refer to as a kook, which is to say: I am terrible at surfing. In every possible way, I am an embarrassment to the art of standing on the ocean. I was terrible at it when I started, and I am terrible at it now, and I love it.' (Introduction)
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