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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Marya Hornbacher

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiography written by Marya Hornbacher, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. Published by Random House in 1998, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age surprised many readers, and the memoir was praised for its maturity and candor.

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“And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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“The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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“I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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