Wasted

A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Author: Marya Hornbacher
ISBN: 9780060187392

Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of five, she returned from a ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed and cried -- because she thought she was fat. By age nine, she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at home after school while watching The Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. She added anorexia to her repertoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve.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 sustained both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs and, ultimately, any sense of what it meant to be "normal." In this vivid, emotionally wren

Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Date: 1997-12-29

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Medical, Biography & Autobiography / General, Health & Fitness / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Body image)