The Resource Hunger : a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay
Hunger : a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay
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The item Hunger : a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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{u2014}including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life{u2014}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{u2019}t yet been told but needs to be
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- eng
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062362599
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- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
- Title
- Hunger
- Title remainder
- a memoir of (my) body
- Statement of responsibility
- Roxane Gay
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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{u2014}including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life{u2014}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{u2019}t yet been told but needs to be
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- Gay, Roxane
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Eating disorders
- Body image
- Label
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062362599
- Label
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062362599
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