Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
by Marya Hornbacher
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Author: Marya HornbacherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-01
ISBN: 0060858796
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: a fiercely intelligent description of an anorexic life
Summary: 5 Stars
Marya Hornbacher's life has been dominated by the devastating diseases of anorexia and bulimia, which have played havoc with her socially, educationally, and emotionally. She describes her numerous hospitalisations, her complicated family dynamics, her even more intense and complex relationship to food (and drugs), and as she charts her descent into anorexia, she manages to keep sufficiently detached to ask big questions of our society and how it comes to nuture such a burgeoning army of anorectics. Marya may not have completed a college degree, but she's smarter than most health professionals who deal with the ravages of anorexia, and she has a steely wit to match. In fact, the author is so clever and writes so well, that I ended up wondering how someone with this much insight into her condition could self-destruct in so many ways for so long. That in itself ultimately demonstrates the terrible, addictive, and insidious nature of eating disorders and how they can grip hold of the best and the brightest and bring them to their knees. Hornbacher's not quite off her knees yet, but she's yelling at us to listen to what she's got to say in the meantime. She's impossible to ignore from the first page to the last.
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