Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-three. 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. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back- on her own terms. ApWebsite edit data Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), in 1998, when she was twenty-three. Marya Justine Hornbacher (born April 4, 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. in this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-creates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. From her account here, it is easy enough to appreciate why. By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout w/ anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. For most of her life, Marya Hornbacher has suffered from various eating disorders that have caused her weight to fluctuate between a normal 135 and a decidedly abnormal 52 pounds.
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 w/ hunger, drugs, sex and death? marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless theraphy and the loss of family, friends, jobs and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal". Others: All defects if any are formulated into pricing Condition: vg-/good+ condition, minor shelf wear
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