Life-Size

Both a cautionary tale and a call to arms for women whose lives are diminished by the tyranny of thinness, this harrowing novel about a young woman's anguished battle with anorexia is by turns crackling, acrid, and darkly comic. Life-Size shoots straight for the heart of our country's obsession with food and image.

With nightmarish accuracy and bleak wit, this first novel--a Literary Guild selection in cloth--chronicles the traumatic hospitalization of an anorexic 25-year-old graduate student.
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