A culinary memoir recollects the strange, good, and terrible dramas of the author's life and places them in the context of the realm of food, from childhood mud pies and bridal dinners to the experiments created during an affair.

Never Eat Your Heart Out

Biographies & Memoirs

Moore, Judith

Professionals & Academics

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly) For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore’s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles. “Searingly honest without affectation… Moore emerged from her hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.”—The Seattle Times “Frank, often funny—intelligent and entertaining.”—People (starred review) “God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest.”—Anne Lamott “Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane.”—David Sedaris “Stark… lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart.”—Newsweek “A slap-in-the-face of a book—courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny.”—Augusten Burroughs

Fat Girl: A True Story

Community & Culture

Penguin Publishing Group

Fat Girl

Memoirs

Profile Books

xvii 214p cloth, dustjacket, index, notes, new: Florence N contextualised

A Zeal for Responsibility: The Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1868-1883

Medical Books

Univ of Georgia Pr

In this tart, satisfying memoir, as keenly lyrical about its author’s life as it is down-to-earth and hilarious about American food, Judith Moore recollects the good, bad, and terrible dramas of her life and places them in memorable culinary frames.

On 1 January 1753 Elizabeth Canning, an eighteen-year-old maidservant, disappeared somewhere between her uncle's and her mother's home. Nearly a month later she reappeared at her mother's door; she was half-naked, emaciated, unable even to swallow. Elizabeth's neighbors rallied around her with medical and legal support, and when they pieced together her story of assault, kidnapping, and detention, they pursued her assailants. Susannah Wells, an Enfield woman, was soon identified as the owner of the house where Canning said she had been held; Canning identified Mary Squires, a gypsy woman resident in Wells's house, as the person who had stripped her of her stays and thrust her into the derelict attic from which she had eventually escaped.Eighteenth-century criminal proceedings were swift: Squires was sentenced to hang within a month of being charged, and Wells was branded and imprisoned. Lord Mayor Sir Crisp Gascoyne of London had presided at their trial, but he was dissatisfied with the verdict. He began to collect evidence that would provide an alibi for Mary Squires. Other prominent figures were drawn into the complexities of the case, among them the novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding, who saw Canning as a figure of injured innocence, as well as Dr. John Hill, an enemy of Fielding and a journalist, who presented her as a scheming sexual adventuress.Public controversy over the case grew rapidly inflamed. Although Wells remained in jail, Squires was pardoned, and Canning was charged with and ultimately convicted of perjury. Her trial, one of the longest in the eighteenth century, presented evidence placing Mary Squires in Enfield, where Canning said she was, and in Dorsetshire, at the same time. The case was ultimately decided not on the contradictory alibi evidence but by the judge's instructions to the jury to convict. Canning was sentenced to transportation, and she ultimately lived out the remainder of her life in Wethersfield, Connecticut, leaving the unanswered questions of her case to the many contemporary and subsequent authors who have written about it.This study examines both the trial record and the various accounts of the Canning case. Issues of probability, class, gender, and, most importantly, narrative truth and authority are all central to this reanalysis of the notorious case.

The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and Eighteenth-Century Narrative

History

Europe

UNKNO

This examination of the California state-of-mind includes discussions of such subjects as why black undertakers are different from white undertakers and where hair styling is practiced as a form of Jungian psychotherapy.

The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart

Americas

Soho Pr Inc

Healing from the Heart takes the reader through the fictional journey of Anne, a chronically ill woman who has not found help from her conventional doctors. She serendipitously meets a caring healer, called Grandmother, who not only improves her symptoms, but genly teaches her to be aware of how her body and mind are connected in ways that most people never realize. Grandmother takes Anne through the steps of the mind/body/spirit connection, illustrating these principles with simple storytelling and guided imagery, which allow Anne to find ways to harness the healing messages within. These messages that Anne learns from her heart do indeed lead to her ultimate healing. The book gives the reader opportunities at certain intervals to listen to the visualizations and guided imagery on the CDs that are located inside the book, teaching and reinforcing the power points of Grandmother's stories so each reader can discover the healing power within their own heart.

Healing from the Heart: The Inherent Power to Heal from Within (Book and 2 CDs) (Healing from the Heart, 1)

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Moore Heart Enterprises

5 hours and 37 minutes on CDs. "I am fat," begins Judith Moore's unflinching account of her life. As she describes her obsessions with food, struggles with self image and troubled relationships, she refuses to become an object of pity. Moore is the recipient of two NEA grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her previous book, also a memoir, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Fat Girl : A True Story

RECORDED BOOKS^

A angst-filled memoir of one woman's obsession with food and one's body offers a poignant coming-of-age story that sets the author's love/hate relationship with food against her painful longing for a family, love, and a sense of belonging. By the author of Never Eat Your Heart Out. 35,000 first printing.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hudson Street Press

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Never Eat Your Heart Out

Fat Girl: A True Story

Fat Girl

A Zeal for Responsibility: The Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1868-1883

Never Eat Your Heart Out

The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and Eighteenth-Century Narrative

The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart

Healing from the Heart: The Inherent Power to Heal from Within (Book and 2 CDs) (Healing from the Heart, 1)

Fat Girl : A True Story

Fat Girl: A True Story