![]() ![]() ![]() “The book also strives for an authoritative voice that Hornbacher can’t quite pull off,” Knapp wrote. “Hers is one of the wisest considerations in print of the baffling disease-obsession-addiction that turns women (and some men) against themselves,” the San Francisco Chronicle said in a review.īut while praising “Wasted” as a “gritty, unflinching look at eating disorders,” Caroline Knapp, author of “Drinking: A Love Story,” called it “an oddly diluted book” in The New York Times Book Review. The memoir won critical acclaim and praise for Hornbacher’s candor. “Wasted,” written when Hornbacher was just 22, has sold a combined 150,000 hardcover and paperback copies in the United States and has been translated into 14 languages. You lose all semblance of being a woman.” You lose your figure, you start losing your hair, your skin rumples up, it’s ghastly. “I mean, 52-pound anorectics do not look good. Actually, the intent is to look ugly,” she says. “Eating disorders are not really about looking good. ![]()
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