Life-Size [Jenefer Shute] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Landing in the hospital after starving herself down to a mere sixty-seven pounds . The key to its success is that Jenefer Shute understands the importance of language in the strategies of the anorexic, and turns it to literary. Life-Size, a novel by Jenefer Shute: “Unforgettable” (Washington Post Book World); “A remarkable novel” (The New York Times Book Review).

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Dec 13, M. Dysfunctional families and failed relationships wreak havoc with the image of self. Aug 21, Josephine rated it it was amazing. Copyright Los Angeles Times. I felt like it was a little all over the place at times. Shute, telling the story in Josie’s voice, limits her scope to the narrow, obsessive thoughts of an anorexic, so her portrait, while harrowing and absorbing, is more a fictional journal than a full-fledged novel.
Disturbing and blatant, but a very real account of the anorexic mind.
Life-Size by Jenefer Shute
Then I couldn’t eat for several days, read this book about anorexia on the plane ride home, and alienated my sizd neighbor by making embarrassing heaving noises while trying not to cry. Nice because not a nice pat ending either. Ive read this book quite a few times over the past 17 years. Although she is literally starving to death, her lips blue and her skin covered with a strange layer of soft protective hair, she eyes her food tray–chicken and broccoli and milk–with disgust: Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Relapse is a real and serious thing with eating disorders. Apr 29, Courtney rated it it was ok Henefer it for: A novel beautifully written from a point of view of an anorexic woman zize suffers from eating disorder.
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Be the first to discover new talent! Lest you be concerned with my current reading choices these days —Sylvia Plath, Victor Frankl, that Ned Vizzini thing and now this—rest easy: I’m not sure how accurately this work of fiction portrays a young woman with anorexia but it has made me think.
By the end of the book, you actually understand sjze this woman is doing this to herself.
Life-Size, a novel by Jenefer Shute
Yes, she’s anorexic, but I don’t really care to hear about food and how she feels about it page after page after page. I kept waiting to hit the peak of excitement, but it never came. Shute’s very descriptive writing really caught the self-loathing and anger a person suffers with this disorder.
Refresh and try again. Secondly, the main character was simply unlikeable. Seizure Led to FloJo’s Death. Scary, angry, unapologetic tale of an anorexic near to death.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. I got goosebumps reading about her horrible parents and the callus, burned-out medical staff.

She’s still having issues, maybe she’s seen some light but not likely, she’s not okay with getting better. The book really doesn’t resolve her condition at the end, but jsnefer seems to be doing better. As a social work student with a squeemishness towards eating disorders, by boss at my internship reccommended that I read it as a form of “exposure therapy”.
The author did a wonderful shuet of portraying the mindset of those suffering from anorexia. Or realistic in terms of what has caused our heroine to develop and eating disorder and realistic in terms of: The book followed her in-patient treatment at a hospital. Excellent first person narrative on anorexia. The abrupt changes in time-frame and thought process were abrupt and disrupting.
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Very interesting to hear her thoughts and catch glimpses of exactly why she is struggling with her emotions and ED. Open Preview See a Problem? However, there were several flaws with this book. Threatened with jeneefer and watched by a nurse, she nibbles at her food.

The writing, while at times sarcastically witty, sounded for the most part like an adult writing and failing to sound like a teen. Sign up here to receive your FREE alerts. Jenfeer like realistic more than ridiculous YA romance. Aug 21, Jennifer rated it it was ok. Nov 01, Vicky Ziliaskopoulou rated it liked it Shelves: Whilst I liked this book a lot, I didn’t love it. You can feel the creeping madness and altered perceptions. On a side note, I wondered if today When this novel was published in it was probably lige.
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