- Anorexia nervosa, Fiction, Eating disorders, Emotional problems
Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jackie Morse Kessler
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Turtleback, Brand: Turtleback, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547505091
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