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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

05 Jul 2000

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Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346723to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Author: Marya Hornbacher Narrator: Marya Hornbacher Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Genres: Disorders & Diseases Publisher's Summary: Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of five, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on a 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 Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. She added anorexia to her repetoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve. Marya's story gathers intensity with each passing year. By the time she is in college and working for a wire news service in Washington, D.C., she is in the grip of a bout of anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Down to fifty-two pounds and counting, Marya becomes a battlefield: her powerful death instinct at war with the will to live. Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down, food is greed, and death is honor? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya sustained both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs, and, ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she recreates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family and cultural causes unlying eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back again--on her own terms.

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