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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100062362593
ISBN-139780062362599
eBay Product ID (ePID)215934870
Product Key Features
Book TitleHunger : a Memoir of (My) Body
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicPsychopathology / Eating Disorders, Women, Abuse, Personal Memoirs, Abuse / Child Abuse, Personality, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
GenreFamily & Relationships, Philosophy, Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
AuthorRoxane Gay
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-431118
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsHunger is Gay at her most lacerating and probing. . . . Anyone familiar with Gay's books or tweets knows she also wields a dagger-sharp wit., Powerful. . . . fierce. . . . Gay has a vivid, telegraphic writing style, which serves her well. Repetitive and recursive, it propels the reader forward with unstoppable force., A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. . . . An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath., It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment-both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain, and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count.
Dewey Decimal362.27
SynopsisNew York Times bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner A best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be., The New York Times Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner From Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist, a memoir in weight about eating healthier, finding a tolerable form of exercise, and exploring what it means to learn, in the middle of your life, how to take care of yourself and how to feed your hunger. New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be., The New York Times Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner From Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist , a memoir in weight about eating healthier, finding a tolerable form of exercise, and exploring what it means to learn, in the middle of your life, how to take care of yourself and how to feed your hunger. New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.
LC Classification NumberBF697.5.B63G39 2017
Bewertungen und Rezensionen
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- 22. Jun. 2017
Boring and repetitive
I was shocked at how badly written this book was. Gay is a professional writer after all. The syntax was often awkward and the repetition was very annoying. Almost 300 pages of constant self-loathing got tedious. Her message was clear very early on in the book and saying it over and over became numbing. One can only wonder why she ie not in therapy. Society does, indeed, treat fat people badly, but cannot be blamed for the body Gay has chosen to have no matter what the reasons are.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 29. Jun. 2021
Good memoir
Interesting memoir of Roxane's body. I enjoyed the tension between the logic of why you've gained weight but the irrational feelings we, as women, go through. This was a book club pick and I'm happy to be able to find secondhand books and get more use out of them.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 25. Jan. 2018
easy read, compelling
enjoyed her story, compellingBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 05. Nov. 2022
A gift
I bought this as a gift for someone, so u didn't read it.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Feb. 2019
Repetitive
It was sad but also over repetitive in subject matter -Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
