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"The smartest anorexia memoir ever written and a fascinating journey along the torturous pathways of female desire."--Salon With a new discussion guide What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In Appetites , Caroline Knapp... read more
First Sentence
THE LURE OF STARVING-the baffling, seductive hook-was that it soothed, a balm of safety and containment that seemed to remove me from the ordinary, fraught world of human hunger and place me high above it, in a private kingdom of calm.
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- Caroline Knapp (Author)
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