This lack of resolution is both the book's strength and its weakness: ''Wasted''is a gritty, unflinching look at eating disorders, and Hornbacher's refusal to tie the story up in a neat package labeled ''Triumph'' or ''Recovery'' speaks to her respect for their insidious power and persistence. In the final pages of ''Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia,'' Marya Hornbacher describes a recent trip to the gym: she steps on the scale, notes the glee that bubbles up when she realizes she's lost weight, then hits the treadmill and runs for 90 minutes, until her bad knee ''feels like it's exploding.'' Hornbacher's entire young life has been dominated by an eating disorder, one so extreme it pared her down to a near-fatal 52 pounds, and as she reveals here, she is by no means ''cured.''
THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF EATING DISORDERS By Peggy Claude-Pierre.
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