The Hungry Years: Confessions Of A Food Addict

"[Leith's] clear, analytically precise, yet emotive prose, at times almost shockingly so, gives us some insight into what it is that makes us so dysfunctional: his honesty, which is by no means shameless, is his salvation. . . . You will want to read bits of The Hungry Years aloud, and relish the expressions of your audience. But it has a purpose. It could become a classic."
-The Guardian (UK)

"The Hungry Years [is] an engaging and truly funny book… It is a rare author who can turn a diet into a comic epic."-The Globe and Mail

"Hilarious, self-lacerating…a superb book"
-Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats

"Brilliant. . . . Darkly funny, at times disturbing, often sad, brutally honest. . . . [Leith] takes us on a first-
person rollercoaster ride of bingeing, diets and failed relationships. . . . Touching, evocative and deep."
-The Toronto Star

"We like William Leith. We like him when he licks clean a plate of congealed gravy. We like him with crusty mashed-potato stains on his lapels. We like him when he chugs coffee creamer and spoons down an entire jar of peanut butter, and when his T-shirts are so tight on his hot, swollen torso, it feels like rolling on a condom. He's a flinchingly frank and funny feeding-frenzied master of the kamikaze confessional."
-The Georgia Straight

"Frank and often embarrassing, The Hungry Years is a near addictive read that will have you chuckling, shuddering and screaming in frustration, sometimes all at the same time."
-The Gazette (Montreal)

"Leith dissects his cravings with exquisite precision. It's the kind of book you read at one gulp."
-Edmonton Journal

"Leith brings a cool wit to his discussion of a super-hot topic. . . . [He] writes about food addiction the way Hunter Thompson wrote about drugs and politics, with a hallucinatory desperation, a feverish imagining."
-San Francisco Chronicle