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L'AUTOBIOGRAFIA DI UN'ANORESSICA BULIMICA. Intelligente, precoce, energica e ambiziosa, Marya Hornbacher è cresciuta in una tipica famiglia borghese americana. Inizia a pensare di essere grassa a cinque anni. A nove è bulimica e a dodici anoressica. E si vanta della sua incredibile capacità di digiunare. Questo libro non è né il racconto di una malattia infida e misteriosa, né la testimonianza di una miracolosa quanto improbabile guarigione. Questo libro è piuttosto la storia, raccontata in prima persona, del viaggio di una ragazza nel lato più oscuro della realtà e della sua decisione di ritrovare la via del ritorno. Quello di «Sprecata» è un viaggio all'inferno che ci conduce dentro l'esperienza dell'anoressia e della bulimia come nessun'altro libro ha mai fatto prima e che ci lascia, però, con la consapevolezza che si può guarire, sebbene dimenticare mai.
- ISBN: 8863801843
- Casa Editrice: Corbaccio
- Pagine: 336
- Data di uscita: 23-01-2014
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I've put off reviewing this book for some time on account of the fact Marya's both a friend and the editor of my novel, Hunger for Life . But having reminded myself that I read the book long before Marya and I became friends, and that it meant a great to me even before we got to know one another, I t Leggi tutto
Possibly the finest auto-biography I have ever read. People who have suffered from EDs will complain that this book is packed full of triggers, but so is America's Next Top Model, and I can't say anything about the quality of THAT writing. This book is a genuine, gripping story of a youth literally
3.5 stars I once had an eating disorder several years ago, so I appreciate Marya Hornbacher's unflinching honesty in Wasted . She holds nothing back in this memoir, sharing the immense pain that accompanies anorexia and bulimia: the preoccupation with calories that takes over your life, the obsession Leggi tutto
It would be tacky to put this on my "food" shelf, wouldn't it? But I did get so hungry while reading it that I got up and made spaghetti carbonara. It was delicious. So this is a memoir of the author's ten-year struggle with bulimia and anorexia. I found it different from other works I've read on eat Leggi tutto
Marya is a fantastic fucking memoirist. There are a couple reasons this is all the more incredible: First, that she'd found such a voice and command of prose at 23, and second, that a 23 year-old would have lived a life worth writing about. The language is appropriately jagged, with short, sharp sen Leggi tutto
I'm ambivalent about this book. Certainly, at times, she pulled no punches...yet at other times, still a bit under the sway of her disorder, she seemed to be bragging about her "successes" in the extremes of her eating disorder. She wasn't really healthy yet, and that came through in ways she probab Leggi tutto
My relationship with this book is love/hate. It kind of reminds me of Prozac Nation in the sense that the first couple chapters about her average middle-class childhood are pretty boring and pointless. She tries to describe every little bad thing that happened to her like she is the only one in the
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