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Empty : A Memoir by Susan Burton (2020, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Book is in good condition! There is light wear from use. The pages look good with no marks.”
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780812992847
- Book Title
- Empty : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Topic
- Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Women, Personal Memoirs, Developmental / Adolescent, Journalism, Life Stages / Teenagers
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. "Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful."-- People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents' breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from "peculiarity to pathology." Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success--she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse--she'd binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again--and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to "quit food." Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812992849
ISBN-13
9780812992847
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038743057
Product Key Features
Book Title
Empty : a Memoir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Women, Personal Memoirs, Developmental / Adolescent, Journalism, Life Stages / Teenagers
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Rc552.E18b868 2020
Reviews
"Susan Burton's Empty is by turns touching, frightening, fiercely candid, and beautifully written. In this story of a teenager's furtive eating disorders, Burton has sidestepped the clichés, and captured the enigma of attempting to sate, by gluttony and starvation, our human vulnerabilities." --Jill Ciment, author of The Body in Question "Susan Burton's brave and candid book reveals the inner landscape of an adolescent girl, and the way the mind can be hypnotized by the idea of the body. Beautifully written, touching and intimate, Empty speaks to a secret shared by many American women." --Roxana Robinson, author of Dawson's Fall
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-037475
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