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Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-created the experience and illuminated that tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back--on her own terms.
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Biography, Patients, Health, Bulimia, Anorexia nervosa, Eating disorders, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Anorexie mentale, Boulimie, Document, Anorexia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, Hornbacher, marya , 1974-, Eating disorders--patients, Eating disorders--patients--united states--biography, Anorexia nervosa--personal narratives, Bulimia--personal narratives, Rc552.a5 h67 2006People
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
January 31, 2006, Harper Perennial
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Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia
2006, HarperCollinsPublishers, HarperFlamingo
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
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Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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"It was that simple: One minute I was your average nine-year-old, shorts and a T-shirt and long brown braids, sitting in the yellow kitchen, watching Brady Bunch reruns, munching on a bag of Fritos, scratching the dog with my foot."
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