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Wasted

By (author) Marya Hornbacher

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A â€˜retired career anorexicâ€™ 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, sheâ€™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 tale, powerfully told in a virtuoso mix of memoir, cultural criticism and psychological examination. Here is the amazingly articulate fury of a clever woman made stupid by her culture, who threw away her teenage years in a continuous cycle of bingeing and vomiting or just plain starvation. The first book to explore, from the inside, the intimate relationship between eating disorders and 1990s cultureâ€™s historically unprecedented obsession with body, diet and gender; not a testimony to a miracle cure, but the story of one womanâ€™s travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back, on her own terms. â€˜Hornbacher is articulate, clever, and has all the persuasive zeal of a convert, furious at the pressures that made her what she was. Paradoxically, her painful journey is also gripping andâ€¦dare one say itâ€¦.entertaining in a way that no fiction could ever be. A compulsive read.â€™ Publishing News; â€˜A gritty unflinching look at eating disorders written from the raw disintegrated centre of young pain with stark candour and power.â€™ New York Times â€¢ The slimming industry is worth Â£1billion in GB alone â€¢ The UK has 3.5 million anorexics and bulimics