2017, ISBN: 9780062362599

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Hodder Paperbacks. Paperback. NEW. Olivia had made the difficult decision to escape from her abusive marriage and return to her hometown to take over the family beekeeping business. Her… Mehr…

Hodder Paperbacks. Paperback. NEW. Olivia had made the difficult decision to escape from her abusive marriage and return to her hometown to take over the family beekeeping business. Her son, Asher, was just six years old at the time. Now, it seemed almost impossible to believe, but her little boy had grown into a six-foot-tall young man in his final year of high school. He had become kind, good-looking, and popular, even finding himself a new girlfriend who was a tiny sprite of a girl. But Asher was not the only one who had experienced starting over. Lily, too, knew what it was like to have a fresh start. When she and her mother relocated to New Hampshire, they were hoping for a new beginning. It was there that Lily and Asher crossed paths, and they couldn't help but fall for each other. Lily felt an overwhelming sense of happiness - perhaps for the first time in her life. However, there was a lingering question in her mind: could she trust Asher completely? Suddenly, Olivia's world was shattered when she received a devastating phone call. It was the worst news imaginable - Lily was dead, and to make matters worse, Asher had been arrested on a charge of murder. Olivia couldn't comprehend what had happened. In her eyes, her son was a kind-hearted, gentle soul. How could he have been involved in such a horrific act? As the case against Asher unfolded, Olivia began to realize that there was much more to her son than she had ever known. He had hidden a multitude of secrets from her, secrets that now had dire consequences. It was a painful realization for Olivia, one that made her question whether she truly knew the people she loved. She understood that the secrets we keep often reflect the past we desperately want to leave behind. And in this case, it seemed that the past was catching up with Asher in the most tragic way possible. Olivia embarked on a mission to uncover the truth, to unravel the web of lies that had entangled her son. As she delved deeper into the investigation, she discovered shocking revelations about both Lily and Asher. It soon became clear that their relationship was far more complex than she could have ever imagined. In her search for answers, Olivia was forced to confront her own past and the skeletons she had kept hidden. She questioned her own role as a mother and the extent to which she had failed Asher. It was a painful journey of self-reflection and realization, but Olivia knew she had to face her demons in order to save her son. "The Sunday Times Bestseller" is an emotional and enlightening tale that explores the depths of human relationships and the secrets we try to bury. It serves as a stark reminder that we never truly know the people we love, and that sometimes, the truth can be more devastating than we could ever imagine. This gripping novel is a perfect choice for book clubs, as it presents a multitude of discussion points that delve into themes of trust, family, and the power of the past., Hodder Paperbacks, 6, London: PHOENIX (ORIO), 2006. Used. Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he's come "uptown"-back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive. But Lorenzo's had enough of the life: Now he has a job as a Humane Society officer, policing animal abusers and protecting the abused. In the dangerous streets he used to menace, Lorenzo plays a part in maintain- ing order-and it's a role reversal some of his former friends don't appreciate. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo's parole officer, tries to help him, even as she battles her own demons and excesses. Trying to stay one step ahead of her troubled past is a daily struggle. It looks like they both might make it, until a malevolent young killer, working for the powerful local drug boss, changes everything with one violent act. Now Lorenzo finds himself caught between the light and dark sides of the street, struggling to stay legit-or throw everything away to exact revenge., PHOENIX (ORIO), 2006, 0, Archway, 1998 TV/Media Tie-in Vampire fiction paperback book, 1st Edition 1st printing, Condition is near new, has light edge wear, light aging to inside of book, one page upper corner creased, otherwise looks new.(See scans).........WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.........We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more information **...... SUMMARY -A History Lesson?......As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.......As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to dream about slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean?.......Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension.......Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending -- for himself. Buffy and her friends must prevent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history!, Archway, 1998, 6, Paperback. New., 6, New York, N.Y.: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 2017. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jay Grabiec (Author photograph). [8], 306, [6] pages. Minor DJ soiling. In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the deviating act of violence that was a turning point in her 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 Gay explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. The author writes that this is a book about her body, about her hunger, and ultimately, this is a book about disappearing and being lost and wanting so very much to be seen and understood. This is a book about learning, however slowly, to allow herself to be seen and understood. The author writes that stories of bodies like hers are ignored or dismissed or derided. Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is a founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies." The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable... ferociously honest," "arresting and candid," and "intimate and vulnerable." Following her national book tour in support of Hunger, Gay said she found press around the book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat." In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter, Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into the office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating". In an interview with The New York Times, Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book." Derived from a Kirkus review: A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. Gay pulls no punches in declaring that her story is devoid of "any powerful insight into what it takes to overcome an unruly body and unruly appetites." Rather than a success story, it depicts the author, at 42, still in the throes of a lifelong struggle with the fallout from a harrowing violation in her youth. The author exposes the personal demons haunting her life-namely weight and trauma-which she deems "the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me." Much of her inner turmoil sprang from a devastating gang rape at age 12. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe," she writes. Gay painfully recalls the "lost years" of her reckless 20s as a time when food, the anonymity of the internet, and creative writing became escapes and balms for loneliness. The author refers to her body as a "cage" in which she has become trapped, but her obesity also presents itself as a personal challenge to overcome the paralyzing psychological damage caused by rape. Broken into clipped, emotionally resonant chapters, Gay details a personal life spent grappling with the comfort of food, body hyperconsciousness, shame, and self-loathing. Throughout, the author is rightfully opinionated, sharply criticizing the media's stereotypical portrayal of obesity and Oprah Winfrey's contradictory dieting messages. Gay clearly understands the dynamics of dieting and exercise and the frustrations of eating disorders, but she also is keenly in touch with the fact that there are many who feel she is fine just as she is. The author continues her healing return from brokenness and offers hope for others struggling with weight, sexual trauma, or bodily shame. An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath., Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 2017, 3<

2017, ISBN: 9780062362599

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Hodder Paperbacks. Paperback. NEW. Olivia had made the difficult decision to escape from her abusive marriage and return to her hometown to take over the family beekeeping business. Her… Mehr…

Hodder Paperbacks. Paperback. NEW. Olivia had made the difficult decision to escape from her abusive marriage and return to her hometown to take over the family beekeeping business. Her son, Asher, was just six years old at the time. Now, it seemed almost impossible to believe, but her little boy had grown into a six-foot-tall young man in his final year of high school. He had become kind, good-looking, and popular, even finding himself a new girlfriend who was a tiny sprite of a girl. But Asher was not the only one who had experienced starting over. Lily, too, knew what it was like to have a fresh start. When she and her mother relocated to New Hampshire, they were hoping for a new beginning. It was there that Lily and Asher crossed paths, and they couldn't help but fall for each other. Lily felt an overwhelming sense of happiness - perhaps for the first time in her life. However, there was a lingering question in her mind: could she trust Asher completely? Suddenly, Olivia's world was shattered when she received a devastating phone call. It was the worst news imaginable - Lily was dead, and to make matters worse, Asher had been arrested on a charge of murder. Olivia couldn't comprehend what had happened. In her eyes, her son was a kind-hearted, gentle soul. How could he have been involved in such a horrific act? As the case against Asher unfolded, Olivia began to realize that there was much more to her son than she had ever known. He had hidden a multitude of secrets from her, secrets that now had dire consequences. It was a painful realization for Olivia, one that made her question whether she truly knew the people she loved. She understood that the secrets we keep often reflect the past we desperately want to leave behind. And in this case, it seemed that the past was catching up with Asher in the most tragic way possible. Olivia embarked on a mission to uncover the truth, to unravel the web of lies that had entangled her son. As she delved deeper into the investigation, she discovered shocking revelations about both Lily and Asher. It soon became clear that their relationship was far more complex than she could have ever imagined. In her search for answers, Olivia was forced to confront her own past and the skeletons she had kept hidden. She questioned her own role as a mother and the extent to which she had failed Asher. It was a painful journey of self-reflection and realization, but Olivia knew she had to face her demons in order to save her son. "The Sunday Times Bestseller" is an emotional and enlightening tale that explores the depths of human relationships and the secrets we try to bury. It serves as a stark reminder that we never truly know the people we love, and that sometimes, the truth can be more devastating than we could ever imagine. This gripping novel is a perfect choice for book clubs, as it presents a multitude of discussion points that delve into themes of trust, family, and the power of the past., Hodder Paperbacks, 6, Archway, 1998 TV/Media Tie-in Vampire fiction paperback book, 1st Edition 1st printing, Condition is near new, has light edge wear, light aging to inside of book, one page upper corner creased, otherwise looks new.(See scans).........WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.........We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more information **...... SUMMARY -A History Lesson?......As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.......As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to dream about slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean?.......Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension.......Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending -- for himself. Buffy and her friends must prevent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history!, Archway, 1998, 6, New York, N.Y.: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 2017. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jay Grabiec (Author photograph). [8], 306, [6] pages. Minor DJ soiling. In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the deviating act of violence that was a turning point in her 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 Gay explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. The author writes that this is a book about her body, about her hunger, and ultimately, this is a book about disappearing and being lost and wanting so very much to be seen and understood. This is a book about learning, however slowly, to allow herself to be seen and understood. The author writes that stories of bodies like hers are ignored or dismissed or derided. Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is a founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies." The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable... ferociously honest," "arresting and candid," and "intimate and vulnerable." Following her national book tour in support of Hunger, Gay said she found press around the book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat." In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter, Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into the office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating". In an interview with The New York Times, Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book." Derived from a Kirkus review: A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. Gay pulls no punches in declaring that her story is devoid of "any powerful insight into what it takes to overcome an unruly body and unruly appetites." Rather than a success story, it depicts the author, at 42, still in the throes of a lifelong struggle with the fallout from a harrowing violation in her youth. The author exposes the personal demons haunting her life-namely weight and trauma-which she deems "the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me." Much of her inner turmoil sprang from a devastating gang rape at age 12. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe," she writes. Gay painfully recalls the "lost years" of her reckless 20s as a time when food, the anonymity of the internet, and creative writing became escapes and balms for loneliness. The author refers to her body as a "cage" in which she has become trapped, but her obesity also presents itself as a personal challenge to overcome the paralyzing psychological damage caused by rape. Broken into clipped, emotionally resonant chapters, Gay details a personal life spent grappling with the comfort of food, body hyperconsciousness, shame, and self-loathing. Throughout, the author is rightfully opinionated, sharply criticizing the media's stereotypical portrayal of obesity and Oprah Winfrey's contradictory dieting messages. Gay clearly understands the dynamics of dieting and exercise and the frustrations of eating disorders, but she also is keenly in touch with the fact that there are many who feel she is fine just as she is. The author continues her healing return from brokenness and offers hope for others struggling with weight, sexual trauma, or bodily shame. An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath., Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 2017, 3<

2017, ISBN: 9780062362599

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Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1950. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; black spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth's exterior has slight rubbing wear; strong, intact boards; lightly sunned … Mehr…

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1950. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; black spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth's exterior has slight rubbing wear; strong, intact boards; lightly sunned spine; mild edge wear; textblock exterior edges show modest toning, due to age; frontispiece; tight binding; interior clean; illustrated; pp 252. 1345561. FP New Rockville Stock., University of Georgia Press, 1950, 0, New York. 2013. August 2013. Berghahn Books. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781782382300. 228 pages. paperback. keywords: Film Italy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Federico Fellini's script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/6), is published here for the first time in full English translation. It offers the reader a remarkable insight into Fellini's creative process and his fascination with human mortality and the great mystery of death. Written in collaboration with Dino Buzzati, Brunello Rondi, and Bernardino Zapponi, the project was ultimately abandoned for a number of reasons, including Fellini's near death, although it continued to inhabit his creative imagination and the landscape of his films for the rest of his career. Marcus Perryman has written two supporting essays which discuss the reasons why the film was never made, compare it to the two other films in the trilogy La Dolce Vita and 8½, and analyze the script in the light of It's a Wonderful Life and Fredric Brown's sci-fi novel What Mad Universe. In doing so he opens up an entire world of connections to Fellini's other films, writers and collaborators. It should be essential reading for students and academics studying Fellini's work. inventory #43914 ISBN: 9781782382300., 0, New York: Grove Press, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. cloth, x, 310 pages, dust jacket is price-clipped else a fine copy.In this brilliant essay, Storr chronicles Churchill's lifelong depression, tracing its source to parental neglect as well as to genetic factors. As a strategy against this malady, Churchill developed extreme ambition and a pugnacious will....., Grove Press, 1988, 4, New York, N.Y.: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 2017. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jay Grabiec (Author photograph). [8], 306, [6] pages. Minor DJ soiling. In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the deviating act of violence that was a turning point in her 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 Gay explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. The author writes that this is a book about her body, about her hunger, and ultimately, this is a book about disappearing and being lost and wanting so very much to be seen and understood. This is a book about learning, however slowly, to allow herself to be seen and understood. The author writes that stories of bodies like hers are ignored or dismissed or derided. Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is a founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies." The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable... ferociously honest," "arresting and candid," and "intimate and vulnerable." Following her national book tour in support of Hunger, Gay said she found press around the book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat." In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter, Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into the office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating". In an interview with The New York Times, Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book." Derived from a Kirkus review: A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. Gay pulls no punches in declaring that her story is devoid of "any powerful insight into what it takes to overcome an unruly body and unruly appetites." Rather than a success story, it depicts the author, at 42, still in the throes of a lifelong struggle with the fallout from a harrowing violation in her youth. The author exposes the personal demons haunting her life-namely weight and trauma-which she deems "the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me." Much of her inner turmoil sprang from a devastating gang rape at age 12. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe," she writes. Gay painfully recalls the "lost years" of her reckless 20s as a time when food, the anonymity of the internet, and creative writing became escapes and balms for loneliness. The author refers to her body as a "cage" in which she has become trapped, but her obesity also presents itself as a personal challenge to overcome the paralyzing psychological damage caused by rape. Broken into clipped, emotionally resonant chapters, Gay details a personal life spent grappling with the comfort of food, body hyperconsciousness, shame, and self-loathing. Throughout, the author is rightfully opinionated, sharply criticizing the media's stereotypical portrayal of obesity and Oprah Winfrey's contradictory dieting messages. Gay clearly understands the dynamics of dieting and exercise and the frustrations of eating disorders, but she also is keenly in touch with the fact that there are many who feel she is fine just as she is. The author continues her healing return from brokenness and offers hope for others struggling with weight, sexual trauma, or bodily shame. An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath., Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 2017, 3<

2017, ISBN: 0062362593

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[EAN: 9780062362599], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, N.Y.], OBESITY, WEIGHT, DIETING, NUTRITION, TRAUMA, OVERWEIGHT, BODY I… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780062362599], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, N.Y.], OBESITY, WEIGHT, DIETING, NUTRITION, TRAUMA, OVERWEIGHT, BODY IMAGE, FAT, RELATIONSHIPS, COMFORT FOOD, RAPE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, FEMINISM, SHAME, SELF-LOATHING, HYPERCONSCIOUSNESS, JAY GRABIEC, Jacket, [8], 306, [6] pages. Minor DJ soiling. In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the deviating act of violence that was a turning point in her 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 Gay explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. The author writes that this is a book about her body, about her hunger, and ultimately, this is a book about disappearing and being lost and wanting so very much to be seen and understood. This is a book about learning, however slowly, to allow herself to be seen and understood. The author writes that stories of bodies like hers are ignored or dismissed or derided. Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is a founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies." The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable. ferociously honest," "arresting and candid," and "intimate and vulnerable." Following her national book tour in support of Hunger, Gay said she found press around the book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat." In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter, Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into the office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating". In an interview with The New York Times, Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book." Derived from a Kirkus review: A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. Gay pulls no punches in declaring that her story is devoid of "any powerful insight into what it takes to overcome an unruly body and unruly appetites." Rather than a success story, it depicts the author, at 42, still in the throes of a lifelong struggle with the fallout from a harrowing violation in her youth. The author exposes the personal demons haunting her life-namely weight and trauma-which she deems "the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me." Much of her inner turmoil sprang from a devastating gang rape at age 12. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe," she writes. Gay painfully recalls the "lost years" of her reckless 20s as a time when food, the anonymity of the internet, and creative writing became escapes and balms for loneliness. The author refers to her body as a "cage" in which she has become trapped, but her obesity also presents itself as a personal challenge to overcome the paralyzing psychological damage caused by rape. Broken into clipped, emotionally resonant chapters, Gay details a personal life spent grappling with the comfort of food, body hyperconsciousness, shame, and self-loathing. Throughout, the author is rightfully opinionated, sharply criticizing the media's stereotypical portrayal of obesity and Oprah Winfrey's contradictory dieting messages. Gay clearly understands the dynamics of dieting and exercise and the frustrations of eating disorders, but she also is keenly in touch with the fact that there are many who feel she is fine just as she is. The author continues her healing return from brokenness and offers hope for others struggling with weight, sexual trauma, or bodily shame. An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]., Books<

2017, ISBN: 0062362593

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[EAN: 9780062362599], Used, very good, [PU: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, N.Y.], OBESITY, WEIGHT, DIETING, NUTRITION, TRAUMA, OVERWEIGHT, BODY IMAGE, FAT, REL… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780062362599], Used, very good, [PU: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, N.Y.], OBESITY, WEIGHT, DIETING, NUTRITION, TRAUMA, OVERWEIGHT, BODY IMAGE, FAT, RELATIONSHIPS, COMFORT FOOD, RAPE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, FEMINISM, SHAME, SELF-LOATHING, HYPERCONSCIOUSNESS, JAY GRABIEC, Jacket, [8], 306, [6] pages. Minor DJ soiling. In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the deviating act of violence that was a turning point in her 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 Gay explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. The author writes that this is a book about her body, about her hunger, and ultimately, this is a book about disappearing and being lost and wanting so very much to be seen and understood. This is a book about learning, however slowly, to allow herself to be seen and understood. The author writes that stories of bodies like hers are ignored or dismissed or derided. Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is a founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies." The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable. ferociously honest," "arresting and candid," and "intimate and vulnerable." Following her national book tour in support of Hunger, Gay said she found press around the book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat." In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter, Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into the office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating". In an interview with The New York Times, Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book." Derived from a Kirkus review: A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. Gay pulls no punches in declaring that her story is devoid of "any powerful insight into what it takes to overcome an unruly body and unruly appetites." Rather than a success story, it depicts the author, at 42, still in the throes of a lifelong struggle with the fallout from a harrowing violation in her youth. The author exposes the personal demons haunting her life-namely weight and trauma-which she deems "the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me." Much of her inner turmoil sprang from a devastating gang rape at age 12. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe," she writes. Gay painfully recalls the "lost years" of her reckless 20s as a time when food, the anonymity of the internet, and creative writing became escapes and balms for loneliness. The author refers to her body as a "cage" in which she has become trapped, but her obesity also presents itself as a personal challenge to overcome the paralyzing psychological damage caused by rape. Broken into clipped, emotionally resonant chapters, Gay details a personal life spent grappling with the comfort of food, body hyperconsciousness, shame, and self-loathing. Throughout, the author is rightfully opinionated, sharply criticizing the media's stereotypical portrayal of obesity and Oprah Winfrey's contradictory dieting messages. Gay clearly understands the dynamics of dieting and exercise and the frustrations of eating disorders, but she also is keenly in touch with the fact that there are many who feel she is fine just as she is. The author continues her healing return from brokenness and offers hope for others struggling with weight, sexual trauma, or bodily shame. An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]., Books<