Living Large
Supersizing has become an American way of life. We have XXL cars, homes, and waistlines. We built the world's tallest monument. We get the largest breast implants. We're home to the world's largest retailer, sports stadiums, and office building. But with a deep recession and our nation's leaders urging us to reassess the impact of our daily lives, it has become impossible to ignore the effectsaon our environment, finances, communities, and psychesaof going ever-bigger. By turns funny and incisive, Living Large is a nation-spanning journey into the world of qextreme big, q from North Way Christian Community Church in Wexford, Pennsylvania (one of the 1, 300 American megachurches), to Bloomington, Minnesota's, Mall of America (4.2 million square feet in size); from the Tiffany flagship store in Manhattan (where in the past two decades the average engagement ring diamond has nearly doubled in size), to Whittier, California (home of America's largest landfill). Wexler's firsthand reports on going for a breast enlargement consultation, trying to lift the world's largest ball of twine, getting lost in the country's largest hotel, talking shop with members of the Hummer Club of America are complemented by interviews with researchers, economists, business owners, critics, and consumers. Living Large offers a fascinating, thought-provoking look at a nation that's been supersizing for centuries but is only now coming to terms with its appetite for more.Salon called Hummers a acelebrated and reviled as a metaphor for American bravadoaand wretched American excess, a as well as a amilitary- porn embodiment of ... An operating manual? ... We stop at a light behind a station wagon, a car that used to be considered big, and it feels like wea#39;re double its height and its width.
| Title | : | Living Large |
| Author | : | Sarah Z. Wexler |
| Publisher | : | Macmillan - 2010-10-26 |
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