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About the Book
The author of FATHEAD is well
known throughout the New York
City educational system. Did you
know that he is the youngest
accredited High School Algebra
teacher in New York? Just 16 7/8
years of age! He teaches at the
prestigious New York High School
of Science for the Sexually Gifted.
Unfortunately, he is not well liked.
Why? Because he insists on teaching
a weird Algebra of his own
invention he calls Non-Euclidean,
a mathematical gibberish impossible
for his students to understand.
But he unfairly grades on their
learning of the impossible! Then just
one grade to all, to the dumbest of
the dumb, to the brightest of the
bright, its always an F! A damn F!
The tragedy is not that he gives
Algebra a bad name and his students
hate him red hot. But that in their
desperation they have been forced to
form the first armed and dangerous
Anti-Algebra terrorist group in the
United States.
His Students? Their War Plan:
1. Write O.J. Simpson explaining
their need to borrow his knife just
one more time.
2. Write Lorena Bobbitt explaining
their desperate need to borrow her
scissors just once.
3. Write to Al Qaeda, Taliban and
Hamas explaining their desperate
need to borrow a suicide bomber
just once. All of his students and
fellow math teachers implore you
Dear Book Buyer to buy this book!
Buy several books, enough money
and perhaps he will be tempted
to leave the teaching profession
forever!
Dear Reader: Enjoy this book,
it is Robert Lesser's last. This very
minute, a lynch mob of students
and teachers have banded together,
united in Red Revolutionary Rage,
intent upon ending Algebra
Tyranny, opening the prison gates
and freeing all the Fs, some Cs and
Ds...Maybe even a few As?
New Book Takes a Look at the Bizarre and Hilarious World of “Fat George”
New York, NY – October 14, 2004 – There is nothing embarrassing or dangerous about being fat. Well, at least for Fat George who is a bright mind trapped in a fat body. In this hilarious and witty new book, the main character glories in his obsession and fantasies for food, and could very proudly parade around town buck naked and scream, “Fat people, unite!” Author Robert Lesser dishes a comical twist on the health issue of obesity in his new book Fathead. Lesser’s previous work, “The Compassionate Republican’s Guide to Mastering the Art of Human Cookery” pulled readers into the finer cuisine of human recipes, sparing no one in his gourmet creations. In Fathead, the author takes his gustatory predilections to new heights with the book’s chocolate-covered pages. Can’t resist that, can you?
Fat George begins with a description of himself and his general outlook about his condition, “I weigh exactly three hundred and forty four pounds and am five feet three inches in height. I state this as a simple and measurable fact… being fat pleases me; it is my only individuality.” For George, who works in a mint candy factory, there is only one food, Hershey Chocolate Almond Bars. In his mind, he groups other humans as either Vanilla or Chocolate people. Fat George prides in his “impeccable” hygiene and uses it as a weapon against criticism or insensitive jokes. In telling his thoughts and life, George takes us to his favorite bar, workplace, and his home, and introduces the people who add flavor to his life including his very own relatives—Aunt Mabel who is “fat only on the left side” and his cousin Jules who goes through insane tactics to combat Hitler’s last secret weapon: The Fat Germ!
Fathead portrays our different attitudes toward food and obesity—obsession, fear or hatred. Lesser paints a crazy world filled with varied characters having his uni
About the Author
Robert Lesser is…several Robert Lessers. First, a playwright of twelve plays who believes in the insertion of dramatic poetry back into drama. The great Greek and Elizabethan dramatists used it. Why not now, again in hard, pulpy street language written to make the hair on the back of you neck stand up? Second, a humorist having written three novels of political and social satire who believes that the two feet comedy stands on are invention and exaggeration. Invented, funny and the original characters you’ve never met and never will (Dickens and Waugh) exaggerate to the point of absurdity…then laughter. Third, caught and tangled up tight in the spider web of collecting: the author of two popular books on Popular Culture and numerous articles. His collections have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Life? Very fast! Teenager into the Air force into the University of Chicago B.A., M.A. worked in their Institute for Nuclear Studies into the business world, made money, out of the business world, retired, writing full time… Along the way many lovely women were very kind to him. His life motto in Latin: NILS DESPERANDUM…NEVER DESPAIR.