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Empty : a memoir, Susan Burton

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Summary
"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent narrative of living with binge-eating disorder. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt, hostile divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But she hadn't escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents' breakup--including her mother's intensifying alcoholism--an inherited fixation on thinness went from "peculiarity to pathology." She entered into a painful cycle of anorexia, or "iron purity" and feral binge eating that formed the subterranean layer of her sunny life. This is the story not only of loosening the grip of her compulsion but of moving past her shame and learning to tell her secret. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of women's stories, brings to life an indelible cast of characters and tells a story of exhilaration, longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages)
Contents
  • Prologue: 1991
  • Diet
  • Puberty
  • In our family
  • Sunday morning
  • Going west
  • The mind-body problem
  • The walk
  • Stomachs
  • Artifacts
  • November 3-5, 1989
  • Winter
  • Acting
  • Independence
  • College tour
  • Secrets
  • The obsession
  • Late teen
  • Leaving
  • Kasha
  • 7M
  • Body image --Indecision
  • Addiction
  • Stomachs 2
  • Spring
  • Sophomore slump
  • Ritual purification
  • The accident
  • The end of something
  • Epilogue: Telling
Isbn
9780679644040
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Empty : a memoir
Title
Empty
Title remainder
a memoir
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Susan Burton
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent narrative of living with binge-eating disorder. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt, hostile divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But she hadn't escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents' breakup--including her mother's intensifying alcoholism--an inherited fixation on thinness went from "peculiarity to pathology." She entered into a painful cycle of anorexia, or "iron purity" and feral binge eating that formed the subterranean layer of her sunny life. This is the story not only of loosening the grip of her compulsion but of moving past her shame and learning to tell her secret. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of women's stories, brings to life an indelible cast of characters and tells a story of exhilaration, longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation"--
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Biography type
autobiography
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1973-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Burton, Susan
Dewey number
  • 616.85/26002
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
RC552.E18
LC item number
B868 2020
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
NLM call number
WZ 100
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  • Burton, Susan
  • Eating disorders
  • Women journalists
  • Eating disorders in women
  • Eating disorders
  • Eating disorders in women
  • Eating disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • Health
  • Women journalists
  • United States
Label
Empty : a memoir, Susan Burton
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Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: 1991 -- Diet -- Puberty -- In our family -- Sunday morning -- Going west -- The mind-body problem -- The walk -- Stomachs -- Artifacts -- November 3-5, 1989 -- Winter -- Acting -- Independence -- College tour -- Secrets -- The obsession -- Late teen -- Leaving -- Kasha -- 7M -- Body image --Indecision -- Addiction -- Stomachs 2 -- Spring -- Sophomore slump -- Ritual purification -- The accident -- The end of something -- Epilogue: Telling
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780679644040
Lccn
2019037476
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
c39468a8-537e-42ec-9222-98910ddb44ca
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1141022844
  • (OCoLC)on1141022844
Label
Empty : a memoir, Susan Burton
Link
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: 1991 -- Diet -- Puberty -- In our family -- Sunday morning -- Going west -- The mind-body problem -- The walk -- Stomachs -- Artifacts -- November 3-5, 1989 -- Winter -- Acting -- Independence -- College tour -- Secrets -- The obsession -- Late teen -- Leaving -- Kasha -- 7M -- Body image --Indecision -- Addiction -- Stomachs 2 -- Spring -- Sophomore slump -- Ritual purification -- The accident -- The end of something -- Epilogue: Telling
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780679644040
Lccn
2019037476
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
c39468a8-537e-42ec-9222-98910ddb44ca
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1141022844
  • (OCoLC)on1141022844

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