America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life - Brossura

Denizet-Lewis, Benoit

 
9780743277839: America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life
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ISBN 10: 074327783X ISBN 13: 9780743277839
Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2010

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AMERICA ANONYMOUS is the unforgettable story of eight men and women struggling with addictions. For nearly three years acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives as they battled drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality.

Alternating with their stories is Denizet-Lewis’s candid account of his own recovery from sexual addiction and his compelling examination of our culture of addiction, where we obsessively search for new and innovative ways to escape the reality of the present moment and make ourselves “feel better.”

Addiction is arguably this country’s biggest public-health crisis, triggering and exacerbating many of our most pressing social problems, from crime to child abuse and neglect. But while cancer and AIDS survivors have taken to the streets and to the halls of Congress demanding to be heard, millions of addicts talk only to one another in the confines of anonymous Twelve Step meetings. Through the riveting stories in this book, Denizet-Lewis shines a spotlight on addiction and breaks through the shame and denial that still shape our understanding of it—and hamper our ability to treat it.

As these eight addicts stumble, fall, and try again to make a different and better life, Denizet-Lewis records their struggles, and his own, with honesty and empathy.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with The New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor of writing and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of Travels With Casey, America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, and has contributed to Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Details, Slate, Salon, Out, and many others. Denizet-Lewis lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Follow him @BenoitDLewis.

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Editore
Simon & Schuster
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
074327783X
ISBN 13 
9780743277839
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
352
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Simone Casetta
0039 275422215
casetta@mondadori.it

Via Mondadori 1,
Segrate Milano
20090
Italia

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9780743277822: America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life

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ISBN 10:  0743277821 ISBN 13:  9780743277822
Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2009
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