In the story, Marya details childhood and personality factors that may have had a role in the development of her disorder.

Download servers: LaciCloud, Mediafire,, FileServe, Uploaded, Torrent.Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia recalls Marya Hornbacher's personal nine-year battle with anorexia and bulimia.

Other categories, genre or collection: Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects, Autobiography: General, Coping With Eating Disorders.

A compulsive read.' Publishing News `A gritty unflinching look at eating disorders written from the raw disintegrated centre of young pain with stark candour and power.' New York Times The slimming industry is worth GBP1billion in GB alone The UK has 3.5 million anorexics and bulimics Paradoxically, her painful journey is also gripping and.dare one say it.entertaining in a way that no fiction could ever be. 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 culture's historically unprecedented obsession with body, diet and gender not a testimony to a miracle cure, but 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.`Hornbacher is articulate, clever, and has all the persuasive zeal of a convert, furious at the pressures that made her what she was. Her doctors and her parents had given up on her they were watching her die. By the time she was eighteen, she'd been hospitalized five times, once in the loony bin.

Description or summary of the audiobook: A `retired career anorexic' 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.

Duration of the summary (audio): 23M5S (6 MB).You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Apple Lossless, AAC, MOD, MPEG4, WAV, MP3, WMA, FLAC (compression CAB, JAR, TZO, TGZ, TAR, ZIP, RAR).

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