Marya Hornbacher
Paperback | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 4.01 | 29037 Users | 1239 Reviews
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| Title | : | Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia |
| Author | : | Marya Hornbacher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | January 31st 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published December 29th 1997) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Health. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Biography. Biography Memoir |
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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.Declare Books Toward Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
| Original Title: | Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia |
| ISBN: | 0060858796 (ISBN13: 9780060858797) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 29037 Users | 1239 ReviewsNotice Regarding Books Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
This book will haunt you, I promise you. I still think about it often, though I read it for the first time I think about 4 years ago. The author chronicles her struggle with anorexia and bulimia (which she calls a combined disorder of "bulimarexia") but her language is captivating. It is also apparent that Marya has done her research; as she narrates her own experience she also includes passages from research on anorexia and bulimia to help show how she came to be afflicted and where she fitsOkay... what to say about THIS... LOLI was expected a story about this woman's struggle with ED.And yeah, it kind of was, but then it kind of wasn't.Only a very small portion of the book is her actually owning up to her own personal issues & experiences. There is not very much of HER story (i.e. "I did this, I went here, I said that... etc) Not very much "I" at all.Instead we have a book full of her being totally dissociated from the entire ED. Instead of "I" it's all "You".... "You will do
Beautifully written and extremely intense, and well worth reading even if you have no interest whatsoever in the subject matter. I didn't when I picked it up, but my attention was caught by the arresting cover photograph, and the first chapter was so gripping that I had to either buy it or stand in the bookshop reading it for the next few hours. One of my very favorite memoirs, with an excellent balance of personal narrative with just enough background and research to keep it from solipsism. The
This was such a difficult and painful book to read that it took me well over a month to finish it! Hornbacher in no way tried to sugarcoat her illness or attempt to make the reader feel sorry for her. And I have to say I both appreciated and admired her honest recount of her actions. She goes so far as to acknowledge that she still doesn't have a full grasp of understanding her disorder nor does she leave you with a false sense of well-being in the end. She ends her memoir telling you she was
just a little reminder:you're beautiful.you're worth it.you're more than your body, your weight, your thoughts.you're allowed to eat.you deserve to eat.[TRIGGER WARNING FUCKING TRIGGER WARNING]as someone who is currently struggling to kick my eating disorder ass, i can say that this book triggered me a lot. made me realize how fucked up i am. but it also made me feel less alone and misunderstood. marya did not enjoy writing this book. i did not enjoy reading it. because it hurts. writing and
This book was interesting and gives readers a glimpse into a disease (disorder?) that nearly killed Marya until she got control of her life again. Genuine and realistic, Wasted is really worth reading.
It would be tacky to put this on my "food" shelf, wouldn't it? But I did get so hungry while reading it that I got up and made spaghetti carbonara. It was delicious.So this is a memoir of the author's ten-year struggle with bulimia and anorexia. I found it different from other works I've read on eating disorders, in that the author doesn't go for easy explanations of why she almost killed herself. She wasn't trying to be pretty or perfect or to control her world, at least not solely. She was
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