The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict - Softcover

Leith, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747572496 ISBN 13: 9780747572497

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Synopsis

'Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. I'm hungry most of the time'. One January morning in 2003, William Leith woke up to the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr Robert Atkins. What started out as a routine assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. "The Hungry Years" charts new territory for anyone who has ever had a craving or counted a calorie. This story of food, fat, and addiction will change the way you look at food for ever.

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Review:

‘Compulsively readable. I gulped it down in a couple of greedy bites ... It is a powerful memoir’ -- Daily Telegraph

‘It’s part memoir, part diet book, part comedy, and part sugar rush. I loved it’ -- Tim Lott

‘This hilarious, self-lacerating memoir of a compulsive eater is a superb book ... this is his crowning achievement’ -- Jon Ronson

From the Publisher:

Makes fat not just a feminist issue but relevant to everyone: William Leith’s unblinking investigation of the physical consequences and psychological pain of being an overweight man charts new territory.

Shortlisted for the Mind Awards 2006 Book of the Year

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747572496
• ISBN 13: 9780747572497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304