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Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle As a Metaphor for Our Age
by Orbach, Susie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393022781
- ISBN 13
- 9780393022780
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. W W Norton & Co Inc., 1986. Hardback First Edition of First American Edition. Hardcover in FINE Condition with a VG Dust Jacket. Anorexia and other eating disorders. Author is a practicing psychotherapist who works with anorectics and bulimics and is a co-founder of the Women's Therapy Center Institute in New York and the Women's Therapy Centre in London. This is an examination of the anorectic's struggle, the battle for autonomy, a desperate attempt to control the need for food and all it represents-love, nurture, strength, power. A compelling and tragic book. Bound in bright green half-cloth gilt titled with yellow cloth-wrapped boards, very clean and bright, tight and solid volume. Internals as new. Jacket is clean, rubbed, no edgewear, rear inner flap with crease. 201 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. W W Norton & Co., New York and London, 1986.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015159
- Title
- Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle As a Metaphor for Our Age
- Author
- Orbach, Susie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393022781
- ISBN 13
- 9780393022780
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- ANOREXIA NERVOSA; EATING DISORDERS; HEALTH;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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