Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days - Brossura

Clegg, Bill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784708194 ISBN 13: 9781784708191

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2018

Riassunto

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattan's underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control.

Ninety Days begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends - and tells the wrenching story of Bill Clegg's battle to reclaim his life. The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction. But as any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning. . .

Published for the first time in one volume: Bill Clegg's unflinching account of the addiction that nearly ended everything.

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Recensione:

"Destined to become a cult classic of writing on drug addiction." (Irvine Welsh [Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man])

"It's an honest and wonderfully crafted book by a man as intoxicated by language as he was by crack – A.L. Kennedy." (Guardian [Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man])

"I loved Bill Clegg's Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man because of its unflinching honesty... There is a passage in it in that is among the most tender and desperate I have ever read. It is also extremely funny." (Observer [Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man])

L'autore:

Bill Clegg is the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. His first novel, Did You Ever Have a Family, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784708194
• ISBN 13: 9781784708191
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400