Wasted Updated Edition A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Name: Wasted Updated Edition A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Price: 3.36 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780062327031

ISBN-10: 0062327038

ISBN-13: 9780062327031

Edition: 2014

Authors: Marya Hornbacher

List price: $16.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $8.24

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.36

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A reissue of the highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir--a classic of the genre--with an important, and perhaps controversial, new Afterword by the author.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…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/27/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and bestselling writer. Her books include the memoirs Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, 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.