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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Steel, Danielle.     Subjects     Young women -- Fiction.     Overweight women -- Fiction.     Self-realization in women -- Fiction.     Body image -- Fiction.     Parent and adult child -- Fiction.     High school teachers -- Fiction.     New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      Steel, Danielle.       by title:      Door dik en dun [Dut...      Translation of. Big ...      Big girl. Dutch Dutc...       by call number:      MLDUT FICTION STE     Search the Web     Steel, Danielle.     Young women -- Fiction.     Overweight women -- Fiction.     Self-realization in women -- Fiction.     Body image -- Fiction.     Parent and adult child -- Fiction.     High school teachers -- Fiction.     New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction       MARC Display

Door dik en dun [Dutch] : roman / Danielle Steel ; vertaling [uit het Engels]: Carla Hazewindus. by Steel, Danielle. Luitingh-Sijthoff B.V., c2013. Call #: MLDUT FICTION STE Subjects Young women -- Fiction.   Overweight women -- Fiction.   Self-realization in women -- Fiction.   Body image -- Fiction.   Parent and adult child -- Fiction.   High school teachers -- Fiction.   New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction ISBN:  9789021015316 (pbk.) 9021015315 (pbk.) Uniform title:  Big girl. Dutch Dutch Alternate title:  Big girl [Dutch] : a novel. Translation of. Big girl. Edition:  Nederlandse uitgave Description:  350 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "Een speciale uitgave van Veldboeket Lektuur. 1e druk Nederlandse uitgave: Amsterdam : Sijthoff, 2011."--T.p. verso Translation of. Big girl. Translated from the English. Text in Dutch Summary:  "De zussen Gracie en Victoria verschillen als dag en nacht van elkaar: Gracie is mooi, slim en succesvol, terwijl Victoria het zwarte schaap van de familie is. Victoria wordt er diep ongelukkig van en zoeht haar toevlucht in eten. Zodra ze haar diploma heeft behaald, vertrekt ze naar New York om droom te verwezenlijken: lerares worden. Niet veel later komt het geplande sprookjeshuwelijk van haar zus Gracie echter onder druk te staan en heeft ze zelf een bijzondere ontmoeting. De zussen steunen elkaar door dik en dun. Stukje bij beetje groeit Victoria's zelfvertrouwen, maar zal het haar ooit lukken de pijn te vergeten en van zichzelf te gaan houden?"--Back cover "In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter’s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoria’s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as “our tester cake.” With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoria’s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her father’s “big girl,” and her mother’s constant disapproval is equally unkind. When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point. Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself."--Inside jacket (English edition). Genre:  Bildungsromans. Women's fiction. Dutch language materials. English fiction -- Translations into Dutch Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Multilingual Dutch FICTION STE Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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