| This is a factual account of a 32-year-old's experience of anorexia and bulimia over a fourteen year period. The book starts with her childhood in California and moves through to a period where she only weighed 52 pounds.
The book is not just about her experiences with food. It is also about her struggle with society in an era when to be thin was everything; when every woman wanted to be rich and thin. It is about one woman's desperate desire to counter the cultural voice that tells her she is "too much, too much, too much" It is a memoir of a nerotic young woman's attempt to kill herself by refusing food. This book sheds light on the psychology of all women who fear gaining weight. She leads us through her short life - the five hospitalizations, the spell in a mental asylum, the botched education. | ||
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Plot & Themes Phys disability/mental struggle? Yes Struggle with - fatness Period of greatest activity? - 1950+ Subject of Biography Gender - Female Profession/status: Ethnicity - White Nationality - American Unusual characteristics: Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 () United States Yes The US: - Northeast - California Century: - 1980's-Present Writing Style Book makes you feel? - concerned Graphic sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult Pictures/Illustrations? - None How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book |
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