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Empty : a memoir
Title:
Empty : a memoir
ISBN:
9780812992847
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xviii, 279 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
1991 -- Diet -- Puberty -- In our family -- Sunday morning -- Going west -- The mind-body problem -- The walk -- Stomachs -- Artifacts -- November 3-5, 1989 -- Winter -- Acting -- Independence -- College tour -- Secrets -- The obsession -- Late teen -- Leaving -- Kasha -- 7M -- Body image -- Indecision -- Addiction -- Stomachs 2 -- Spring -- Sophomore slump -- Ritual purification -- The accident -- The end of something -- Telling.
Abstract:
"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest ... narrative of living with binge-eating disorder"-- Provided by publisher.
Personal Subject:
Electronic Access:
5
Language:
English