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Title: Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 1-58243-225-2 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a misprint
Comment: Plenty has been written about WHAT women want; movies have even been titled as such. But this book by Caroline Knapp isn't about WHAT; it's about WHY. Knapp's 1996 book, Drinking: A Love Story, chronicled her battle with alcoholism, whereas Appetites, a much more ambitious book, examines her early battle with anorexia, a condition which was referred to only peripherally in her previous book. According to Knapp's self-awareness revelations, the denial of food is a metaphor that explores the difficulties women have even acknowledging their deepest desires - desires for sex, love, freedom, professional recognition... just life. The message behind Appetites is made more poignant by the fact that Knapp died last year of lung cancer at age 42. Her book is full of wit and wisdom - and we can hope that before death, she came to appreciate those 2 qualities within herself.
Rating: 5
Summary: A profound and insightful voyage of self-discovery
Comment: Appetites: Why Women Want is Caroline Knapp last book (she died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two). Appetites is an openly personal testimony by a survivor of anorexia concerning a culture determined and dedicated to shape and control women's physical and emotional desires, -- and wresting with what it truly means to feed the body and soul. Whetting appetites for food, work, love, or pleasure, Appetites: Why Women Want fully engages the reader in a profound and insightful voyage of self-discovery.
Rating: 5
Summary: Caroline Knapp is a must read
Comment: Caroline Knapp clearly has been through a lot. Her writing is honest andfor the most part non-judgemental. This was the first books I read by Knapp and I simply started reading it when I picked it up by chance at a local bookstore. I ended up reading all of her books. But appetites is my favorite because it deals with so many issues under the "food" topic. I recommend it to everyone, for women to re-think and to menso that they can better understand and relate. Overall it was a great read. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 0385315546 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 0385317018 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Alice K.'s Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoes by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 0452271215 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 1582433135 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 27 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Food and Loathing: A Lament by Betsy Lerner ISBN: 0743221834 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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