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Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live - Couverture rigide

Husain, Amber

 
9781529154337: Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live
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ISBN 10 : 1529154332 ISBN 13 : 9781529154337
Editeur : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2026

Synopsis

'Deeply researched and original' RUBY TANDOH, author of All Consuming
'Stunningly profound and politically rousing' SOPHIE LEWIS, author of Abolish the Family
'What a treat to be so compelled to turn the page' LOTTIE HAZELL, author of Piglet
'Witty, unsparing, surprising and rich' ALICIA KENNEDY, author of No Meat Required

If you are what you eat, what does that make you? Virtuous, cool, immortal? Or deviant, pitiful, ill? Is it useful to make these judgements? Do they help us improve our lives?

In a world where it feels as though the value of your life can be gauged by the goodness in your dinner, it is possible, even easy, to lose the will to live. This became particularly obvious to writer Amber Husain when suddenly, despite almost thirty years of practice, it seemed she had forgotten how to eat.

Medical wisdom tries fix the problem non-eater by teaching them the rules of Good Diet. But what if the problem is precisely the narrowing of life to questions of personal goodness? Suspecting there might be more to her stand-off with food than matters of identity and diet, Husain embarked on an enquiry into the special role of eating in our relationship with the world.

Combining a personal account of modern eating-disorder treatments, from the disturbing to the sublime, with a sprawling collective history of eating in hard times, Tell Me How You Eat unearths the astonishing effect of how we feed ourselves and others, not just on who we are, but on how we perceive our own political power. In doing so, it marks a bold and inspiring confrontation with our very understanding of food.

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À propos de l'auteur

Amber Husain is the author of Replace Me (2021) and Meat Love (2023). Her essays have been published in Granta, New Left Review, The White Review, The Believer, Bookforum LA Review of Books and New York Times Magazine. She has a PhD in art history from UCL and teaches critical and creative writing.

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Éditeur
Hutchinson Heinemann
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1529154332
ISBN 13 
9781529154337
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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The Random House Group Limited
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