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The man who couldn't eat, a memoir, Jon Reiner

Label
The man who couldn't eat, a memoir, Jon Reiner
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
memoirs
Main title
The man who couldn't eat
Medium
compact disc
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Oclc number
746798605
Responsibility statement
Jon Reiner
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest. The medical commandment 'nothing by mouth' came to represent the prolonged food deprivation that would have a radical impact on Jon's relationship with food
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