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Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater (Hardcover)

By: Frank Bruni (Author)

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"There are very few emotions the New York Times restaurant critic Bruni's autobiography does not invoke--all well and good for what should be an army of readers. His book is funny and sad, heartwarming and anger-provoking, and candid and cagey....It reads like a novel, resonates like true life, and resounds with a wise life perspective." (starred review)

"The problem with BORN ROUND is that...[t]he solution Bruni finds to a lifetime of ranging from overweight to obese is to exercise hard and eat less....It wouldn't make a very good diet infomercial, but it does make for wonderful reading."

"It's a good thing Frank Bruni is such a talented writer, or BORN ROUND...would be a lot tougher to digest....A book of comic excesses and culinary appreciation, it ends on a cautiously optimistic note: Bruni mostly has his eating under control, but doesn't take it for granted. His passion for food, however, remains undiminished."

"Bruni's prose is as robust as his story; he clearly enjoys writing as much as eating. He is also, at times, very funny. But the best thing about BORN ROUND is that it is so embarrassingly, inspiringly honest....His book does what a memoir should: it entertains and edifies, voicing pain that otherwise many endure in loneliness. It promises to give comfort to souls feeling confused or betrayed by their bodies."

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"The New York Times" restaurant criticas heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of struggling with his outsize appetite.
Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and hungry, always and endlessly hungry. He grew up in a big, loud Italian family in White Plains, New York, where meals were epic, outsize affairs. At those meals, he demonstrated one of his foremost qualifications for his future career: an epic, outsize love of food. But Brunias relationship with eating was tricky, and his difficulties with managing it began early. When Bruni was named the restaurant critic for "The New York Times" in 2004, he knew enough to be nervous. The restaurant critic at the Times performs one of the most closely watched tasks in the epicurean universe; a bumpy ride was certain, especially for someone who had never written about food, someone who for years had been busy writing about politics, presidential campaigns, and the pope. What qualified him to be one of the most loved and hated tastemakers in the New York food world? Did his decades-long obsession with food suffice?
Food was his friend and enemy both, something he craved but feared, and his new-job jitters focused primarily on whether head finally made some sense of that relationship. In this coveted job, head face down his enemy at meal after indulgent meal. As his grandmother often put it, aBorn round, you donat die square.a Would he fall back into his old habits or could he establish a truce with the food on his plate?
"Born Round" traces the highly unusual path Bruni traveled to become a restaurant critic; it is the captivating account of an unpredictable journalistic ride from an internas desk at "Newsweek" to a dream job at "The New York Times," as well as the brutally honest story of Brunias lifelong, often painful, struggle with food. "Born Round" will speak to any hungry hedonist who has ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband and will delight anyone interested in matters of family, matters of the heart, and the big role food plays in them.

A hilarious and touching memoir from New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni traces the unlikely path to his profession and offers a searingly honest exploration of this lifelong struggle with food.

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Eating-disorder memoirs written by women are a dime -a-dozen, so Frank Bruni's honest account of his lifelong battle with binge eating, bulimia, sleep-eating, and simply being fat, provides a much needed male perspective to the genre. Bruni is no average overweight American, he's a food critic for The New York Times, and so it's his job to eat out seven nights a week, even as he struggles to stay on a diet. BORN ROUND is a funny, frank, and often touching account of a life literally lived at the alter of food, and the collateral damage of such a life: self-esteem problems and a miserable track-record with the opposite sex.

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