Freefall - Brossura

Canfield, Oran

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ISBN 10: 0091924553 ISBN 13: 9780091924553

Casa editrice: Ebury Press, 2009

Riassunto

Whether he was performing the circus as a reluctant child juggler, living in a punk rock commune or staying with a coke-addled cop in Mexico on a school exchange program, Oran Canfield never had a 'normal' childhood.

After being abandoned as a baby by his motivational guru father (Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books) Oran spent time with a succession of friends, relatives, teachers, commune dwellers, socialist rebels and circus clowns. But Oran's life only truly entered freefall when he became addicted to heroin at the age of twenty-three. His parents are again united in their desire to make him quit, but Oran is convinced that he is beyond all help ...

Freefall is Oran's remarkably honest, often hilarious and compulsively readable memoir, which shows that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to start living life fully, and for yourself.

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Recensione:

"Humorous ... devoid of self-pity ... entertaining" (Guardian)

"Canfield tells a tough life with the rueful recall and black good humour of a survivor now happy with himself" (The Times)

"Far more entertaining than your average heroin memoir" (Independent on Sunday)

Descrizione del libro:

This is a brilliantly written memoir of a unusual childhood and heroin addicted young adulthood by Jack Canfield's son

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ebury Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0091924553
• ISBN 13: 9780091924553
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336