$26.92
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 March 1999
Summary
A ‘retired career anorexic’ examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature.
At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At twelve, she was anorexic. By the time she was eighteen, she’d been hospitalized five times, once in the loony bin. Her doctors and her parents had given up on her; they were watching her die. But Marya decided to live. Four years on, now 22, here is her harrowing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780006550891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0006550894 |
| Author: | Marya Hornbacher |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Flamingo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher is the author of Madness: A Bipolar Life, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, and a novel, The Center of Winter.
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