The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant

The Passion of Alice

Stephanie Grant

It’s 1984. Alice Forrester is a twenty-three-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is taken to the emergency room of Seaview hospital – renowned for its eating disorders clinic. There, family and friends, in league with staff and doctors, intently try to steer her toward recovery. But it’s not that simple. She passes time at the clinic waiting to find out the thing that is wrong with her. What happened. When and how the damage was done. Along the way, Alice encounters a fascinating array of oddballs and misfits – Dr. Paul, the physician who monitors this disparate group of afflicted young women; the psychiatric support staff whose treatment for anorexia revolves around a chillingly familiar Twelve Step program; wraithlike, flaxen-haired Gwen, whose anorexia ultimately turns into tragedy; and finally Maeve, raucous, vulgar, tender, and kind, who shakes up Alice’s life and opens up her eyes. Shot through with wry wit and poignancy, The Passion of Alice is a re

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Details

ISBN 9780395755181
Genre Fiction
Copyright Date 1995
Publication Date Oct-95
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 280
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Anorexia Nervosa; Anorexia Nervosa/ Fiction; Medical Novels; Young Women; Young Women/ Fiction
BookID 9666

Author: LFWBooks