Bibliograph

How to disappear completely, on modern anorexia, Kelsey Osgood

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How to disappear completely, on modern anorexia, Kelsey Osgood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-266)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to disappear completely

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

829451555

Responsibility statement

Kelsey Osgood

Sub title

on modern anorexia

Summary

"At fourteen, Kelsey Osgood became fascinated by the stories of women who starved themselves. She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their cautionary tales to memory--how little they ate, their lowest weights, and their merciless exercise regimes--to learn what it would take to be the very best anorectic. When she was hospitalized for anorexia at fifteen, she found herself in an existential wormhole: how can one suffer from something one has actively sought out? Through her own decade-long battle with anorexia, which included three lengthy hospitalizations, Osgood harrowingly describes the haunting and competitive world of inpatient facilities populated with other adolescents, some as young as ten years old. With attuned storytelling and unflinching introspection, Kelsey Osgood unpacks the modern myths of anorexia, examining the cult-like underbelly of eating disorders in the young, as she chronicles her own rehabilitation. How to Disappear Completely is a brave, candid and emotionally wrenching memoir that explores the physical, internal, and social ramifications of eating disorders and subverts many of the popularly held notions of the illness and, most hopefully, the path to recovery."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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Creator