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Bill Clegg Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man : a Memoir
- Publication Name
- Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
- Title
- Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- Format
- Trade Paperback / Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0316054666
- EAN
- 9780316054669
- ISBN
- 9780316054669
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
- Release Year
- 2011
- Release Date
- 08/08/2011
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 8.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Psychopathology / Addiction
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind to want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life-and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN is an utterly compelling narrative-lyrical, irresistible, harsh, and honest-from which you simply cannot look away.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316054666
ISBN-13
9780316054669
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99595481
Product Key Features
Book Title
Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback / Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
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"Bill Clegg has written an exceptionally fine addition to a genre largely bereft of style, intelligence, and moral complexity.... It's plain to see that people stuck by him because they enjoy his company, because he inspires fierce loyalty. Now, at last, Bill Clegg seems capable of believing it."-- Kirk Davis Swinehart , Chicago Tribune, Many first-time memoirists are motivated by self-serving desires: to make the world notice them or to make the world like them. Neither can be said of Bill Clegg., Portrait of an Addict as a Young Manis an instant classic. Anybody who knows anything about addiction will feel morally altered by this book. To an extraordinary degree, it has both beauty and truth., It turns out there is room on the shelf for one more addiction memoir....Clegg spares no one's feelings, least of all his own; it's not the brutality that makes this worthwhile but rather the strange beauty of the stream-of consciousness prose. We're voyeurs, as helpless to stop the carnage as the author himself., Bill Clegg's story of a man-largely locked in hotel rooms, engaged in a desperate, heart-wrenching battle with himself--is destined to become a cult classic of writing on drug addiction., Clegg may not have been able to control his demons, but he is utterly in charge of this material, with a voice that is knowing and self-deprecating in exactly the right measure., Bill Clegg's memoir is a startling, hair-raising, and compulsively readable account of one man's descent into the hell of addiction., One of the reasons to stick withPortrait of an Addict as a Young Manis the lightly narcotized sensorium of Mr. Clegg's prose.... He can write., "One of the reasons to stick with Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is the lightly narcotized sensorium of Mr. Clegg's prose.... He can write."-- Dwight Garner , The New York Times, " Clegg may not have been able to control his demons, but he is utterly in charge of this material, with a voice that is knowing and self-deprecating in exactly the right measure."-- Jonathan Van Meter , Vogue, One of the reasons to stick with Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is the lightly narcotized sensorium of Mr. Clegg's prose.... He can write., I raced through the book in an evening.... That Clegg survived and is well enough to write a book this good is incredible., "It turns out there is room on the shelf for one more addiction memoir....Clegg spares no one's feelings, least of all his own; it's not the brutality that makes this worthwhile but rather the strange beauty of the stream-of consciousness prose. We're voyeurs, as helpless to stop the carnage as the author himself."-- Mickey Rapkin , GQ, I devoured Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man , couldn't put it down. The writing throughout is beautiful, and all the while it is reportorial and efficient and honest--a rare combination of feats!, "This narrative of addiction is itself addictive, and strangely beautiful."-- Maggie Fergusson , The Economist, It turns out thereisroom on the shelf for one more addiction memoir....Clegg spares no one's feelings, least of all his own; it's not the brutality that makes this worthwhile but rather the strange beauty of the stream-of consciousness prose. We're voyeurs, as helpless to stop the carnage as the author himself., "I raced through the book in an evening.... That Clegg survived and is well enough to write a book this good is incredible."-- Susan Juby , The Globe and Mail, I devouredPortrait of an Addict as a Young Man, couldn't put it down. The writing throughout is beautiful, and all the while it is reportorial and efficient and honest--a rare combination of feats!, Bill Clegg has written an exceptionally fine addition to a genre largely bereft of style, intelligence, and moral complexity.... It's plain to see that people stuck by him because they enjoy his company, because he inspires fierce loyalty. Now, at last, Bill Clegg seems capable of believing it., "Many first-time memoirists are motivated by self-serving desires: to make the world notice them or to make the world like them. Neither can be said of Bill Clegg."-- Newsweek, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an instant classic. Anybody who knows anything about addiction will feel morally altered by this book. To an extraordinary degree, it has both beauty and truth.
Dewey Decimal
362.29092 B
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