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Wasted a memoir of anorexia and bulimia

The author shares her lifelong battle with bulimia and anorexia, chronicling her secret life of bingeing and purging and her obsession with food and body image, substance abuse, and sex.

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  • "The author shares her lifelong battle with bulimia and anorexia, chronicling her secret life of bingeing and purging and her obsession with food and body image, substance abuse, and sex."@en
  • "The author shares her lifelong battle with bulimia and anorexia, chronicling her secret life of bingeing and purging and her obsession with food and body image, substance abuse, and sex."
  • ""A reissue of the bestselling memoir with a new afterword by the author. Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia--until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. WASTED is the story of one woman's travels to reality's darker side--and her decision to find her way back on her own terms"--"
  • "The story of a woman, now twenty-three, who has battled to bring herself out of a destructive cycle of anorexia and bulimia since she was nine years old."
  • "A memoir of the author's lifelong struggles with bulimia and anorexia offering a critique of America's obsession with food and body image."@en
  • "One girl's journey of anorexia and bulimia."@en
  • "Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death' Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to reality's darker side -- and her decision to find her way back on her own terms."@en
  • "A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important and perhaps controversial new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the story of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and death'until a particularly horrifying bout with anorexia and bulimia in college forever ended the romance of wasting away. In this updated edition, Hornbacher, an authority in the field of eating disorders, argues that recovery is not only possible, it is necessary. But the journey is not easy or guaranteed. With a new ending to her story that adds a contemporary edge, Wasted continues to be timely and relevant."@en
  • ""A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important and perhaps controversial new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the story of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and death--until a particularly horrifying bout with anorexia and bulimia in college forever ended the romance of wasting away. In this updated edition, Hornbacher, an authority in the field of eating disorders, argues that recovery is not only possible, it is necessary. But the journey is not easy or guaranteed. With a new ending to her story that adds a contemporary edge, Wasted continues to be timely and relevant"--"

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  • "Autobiographies"
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  • "Wasted a memoir of anorexia and bulimia"@en
  • "Wasted a memoir of anorexia and bulimia"
  • "Wasted : a memoir of anorexia & bulimia"
  • "Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulima"@en
  • "Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia"
  • "Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia"@en
  • "Elämä kateissa : kertomus anoreksiasta ja bulimiasta"
  • "Elämä kateissa : kertomus anoreksiasta ja bulimiasta"@fi

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