Small Acts of Disappearance
A$26.95
Winner of the 2016 Nita B. Kibble Award & the 2016 QLD Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award; Shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize & the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction.
Small Acts of Disappearance describes the author’s affliction with an eating disorder which begins in university, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright's her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the author’s motives and actions. The essays combine travel writing, memoir and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead, Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise Glück deal with anorexia and addiction; together with accounts of family life, the observation of detail and the humour which is so compelling in Wright’s poetry.
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