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Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger
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Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger

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Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the author’s affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life - threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the author’s own actions and motivations. The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in Wright’s life, at university, where she finds herself in a radically different social world to the one she grew up in, in Sri Lanka as a fledgling journalist, in Germany as a young writer, in her hospital treatments back in Sydney. They combine research, travel writing, memoir, and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead, Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise GlA1/4ck deal with anorexia and addiction; together with accounts of family life, and detailed and humorous views of hunger - induced situations of the kind that are so compelling in Wright’s poetry.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd
Country
Canada
Date
3 September 2015
Pages
220
ISBN
9781459698581

Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the author’s affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life - threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the author’s own actions and motivations. The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in Wright’s life, at university, where she finds herself in a radically different social world to the one she grew up in, in Sri Lanka as a fledgling journalist, in Germany as a young writer, in her hospital treatments back in Sydney. They combine research, travel writing, memoir, and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead, Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise GlA1/4ck deal with anorexia and addiction; together with accounts of family life, and detailed and humorous views of hunger - induced situations of the kind that are so compelling in Wright’s poetry.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd
Country
Canada
Date
3 September 2015
Pages
220
ISBN
9781459698581