PublishedPerseus, October 2006 |
ISBN9780465071654 |
FormatSoftcover, 272 pages |
Dimensions20.3cm × 13.4cm × 1.7cm |
Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger , Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch: How does hunger work?
