{"product_id":"9781922146939","title":"Small Acts of Disappearance","description":"Author: Fiona Wright\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922146939\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Acts of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of ten essays that describes the author's\u0026amp;nbsp;affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life-threatening\u0026amp;nbsp;anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet\u0026amp;nbsp;and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its\u0026amp;nbsp;contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of\u0026amp;nbsp;hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the author's own actions and\u0026amp;nbsp;motivations. The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in\u0026amp;nbsp;Wright's life, at university, where she finds herself in a radically different social world\u0026amp;nbsp;to the one she grew up in, in Sri Lanka as a fledgling journalist, in Germany as a\u0026amp;nbsp;young writer, in her hospital treatments back in Sydney. They combine research,\u0026amp;nbsp;travel writing, memoir, and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead,\u0026amp;nbsp;Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise Glck deal with anorexia and\u0026amp;nbsp;addiction; together with accounts of family life, and detailed and humorous views of\u0026amp;nbsp;hunger-induced situations of the kind that are so compelling in Wright's poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWonderful news - Fiona Wright has taken out the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.perpetual.com.au\/Kibble\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNita B Kibble Award\u003c\/a\u003e for women's life writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861499170974,"sku":"ADS-9781922146939","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922146939.jpg?v=1779252929","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922146939","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}