Title: The Fat Woman's Joke
Photographer:
Brassai
Publisher:
Academy Chicago Publishers
Publication Date: 1986
Designer: Nadine Michl
Image Title: illustration, after 'Streetwalker Near the Place d'Italie ca. 1932'
Photo Genre: illustration after Documentary [Night]
Book Genre: Novel
Notes:
There may be some irony in the notion that this paperback reprint of Fay Weldon's novel about female stereotypes and body image, first published in 1967 (one year after the formation of the National Organization for Women), uses a painting after a Brassai photograph of a Parisian prostitute as a literal metaphor for it's title. KB