The Good Body

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The bestselling, award-winning author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES returns with a new set of monologues - an even more intimate journey into body and soul Botox, bulimia, breast implants, stomach tucks - Eve Ensler is back, with another round of poignant and hilarious stories about the secret lives of women. Here are our intimate obsessions laid bare - who hasn't hungered for shapelier thighs, a nip or tuck or just a little piercing Ensler toured the world asking women about their anatomical obsessions and gives us their stories: a Puerto Rican's ruminations on fat and family, an Indian beauty's obsession with hair, an LA woman's ultimate concession to her husband. She frames these stories with her own personal journey, serving up riotous excerpts from her lifelong dialogue with her belly - a sassy and conniving antagonist in its own right. We follow her through the serial seductions of low-carb diets, ab rollers and personal trainer to the wise words of a woman who taught her how to love her body, and see that it was good.

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Hilarious * Variety *
Passionate, funny, frank, revealing, even shocking and genuinly committed to improving life on this planet * San Francisco Chronicle *

Author Bio

Eve Ensler is the author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, a theatrical and publishing sensation that has sold over half a million copies worldwide and has been translated into twenty-seven languages. Winner of a Guggenheim and Obie award, she is co-founder and guiding spirit of V-day, an international movement to fight violence against women (see vday.org). She lives in New York City.