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The Man Who Couldn't Eat

Couverture du livre « The Man Who Couldn't Eat » de Reiner Jon aux éditions Gallery Books
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A personal journey with Crohns disease: months of excruciating treatment and the enduring effect it has on the authors emotional state and relationship with food--as well as on his wife, children, and friends.Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine;... Voir plus

A personal journey with Crohns disease: months of excruciating treatment and the enduring effect it has on the authors emotional state and relationship with food--as well as on his wife, children, and friends.Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine; heritage, hot pastrami club with a half-sour pickle; guilty pleasures, a chocolate rum-soaked Bundt cake; identity, vegetarian or carnivore. Food is the sensuality of a ripe strawberry or a pork chop sizzling on the grill. But what if the very thing that keeps you alive, that bonds us together and marks occasions in our lives, became a toxic substance, an inflammatory invader? In this beautifully written memoir, both gut-wrenching and inspiring, award-winning writer Jon Reiner explores our complex and often contradictory relationship with food as he tells the story of his agonizing battle with Crohns disease--and the extraordinary places his hunger and obsession with food took him.;;;; The Man Who Couldnt Eat is an unvarnished account of a marriage in crisis, children faced with grown-up fears, a man at a life-and-death crossroads sifting through his past and his present. And it shows us a tough, courageous climb out of despair and hopelessness. Aided by the loving kindness of family, friends, and strangers and by a new approach to food, Reiner began a process of healing in body and mind. Most of all, he chose life--and a renewed appetite,any way he could manage it, for the things that truly matter most.

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