Stuffed

by Gordon Graham

Bryan Mars was an Australian swimming legend and surf rescue hero brought down by over-eating. He blew it when he blew out, just before the Olympics. The he disappeared.

Director Stirling Seagrave wants to make the movie of Bryan's life. Soap opera star Garvey Quinn agrees to put on weight for the role. Stirling tells Garvey he will be able to lose the fat after the film is made. Garvey is not so sure, but his girlfriend tells him he owes it to his art to give it a go. And so the home deliveries of KFC begin.

Told in the voices of Bryan and Garvey, this is a poignant comedy about sport, film-making, and what it's like to be fat. Really fat.

Gordon Graham has written a number of plays, including The Boys, which became the file of the same name. This is his first novel.

262 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival. He previously taught philosophy at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, and Princeton Theological Seminary. The author of twenty books on a wide range of subjects in aesthetics, politics and moral philosophy, he has also published extensively on the Scottish philosophical tradition. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and winner of an Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society Lifetime Achievement Award, he was founding editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy and general editor of the Oxford History of Scottish Philosophy. His books include Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).