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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 1R Edition
Author(s): Marya Hornbacher (Author)
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publication Date: January 31, 2006
- Edition: 1R
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0060858796
- ISBN-13: 9780060858797
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and bestselling writer. Her books include the memoirs Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 1R Edition, which has been published in twelve languages, and the New York Times bestseller Madness: A Bipolar Life; the recovery books Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps, and Waiting: A Nonbeliever’s Higher Power; and the novel The Center of Winter. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.
