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Resumen del Editor
"An honest and important book... Vivid writing and required reading." (Stephen King)
"A Tolstoyan study of the human condition." (Andrew Solomon)
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018: Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Elle, Newsday, The Millions, Huffington Post, Nylon, Bustle, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Bitch, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, Boston Globe, The Week
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Empathy Exams, a transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction - both her own and others' - and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.
At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need". It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience - the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are.
For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Leslie Jamison writes about the highs of dependency and also about the highs of recovery. Her prose is so sharp and evocative that the reader feels the thrilling trickle of alcohol down the back of the throat, and breathes the struggle for health and freedom. Jamison demonstrates great wit, penetrating intellect, and an enormous heart. This strangely exhilarating book is about recovery, but it is more resonantly a book about desire, consciousness, kindness, self-control, and love - and hence a Tolstoyan study of the human condition." (Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of Far From the Tree and The Noonday Demon)
"Leslie Jamison has written a profound exploration into how empathy deepens us, yet how we unwittingly sabotage our own capacities for it. We care because we are porous, she says. Pain is at once actual and constructed, feelings are made based on how you speak them. This riveting book will make you a better writer, a better human." (Mary Karr, author of Lit and The Liars' Club)
"Jamison's questing immersion in intoxication and sobriety is exceptional in its vivid, courageous, hypnotic telling; brilliant in its subtlety of perception, interpretation, and compassion; and capacious in its scholarship, scale, concern, and mission." (Booklist)
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- Memoirs
- De: Melissa Febos
- Narrado por: Melissa Febos
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery.
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This journey is captivating to say the least!
- De Ilanna en 08-11-17
De: Melissa Febos
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Let's Take the Long Way Home
- A Memoir of Friendship
- De: Gail Caldwell
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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In Let's Take the Long Way Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell offers a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life and her extraordinary friendship with Caroline Knapp, the author of Drinking: A Love Story. Though they are more different than alike, these two fiercely private, independent women quickly relax into a friendship more profound than either of them expected. They grow increasingly inseparable until, in 2003, Caroline is diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.
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Uniquely wonderful book
- De Lucie en 09-07-10
De: Gail Caldwell
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Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
- Memoir of a Borderline Personality
- De: Merri Lisa Johnson
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point.
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Chaotic, disturbing, meaningless
- De BRB en 04-02-14
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I'm the One That I Want
- De: Margaret Cho
- Narrado por: Margaret Cho
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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I'm the One That I Want, based on her show of the same name, is filled with dead-on insights about the experience of being a woman with attitude, of flowing with the highs and lows of life, and of creating one's own identity and acceptance. It is every bit as hilarious, shocking, and irreverent as she is.
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Hilarious and deeply engrossing
- De Ling en 04-10-03
De: Margaret Cho
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Your Voice in My Head
- A Memoir
- De: Emma Forrest
- Narrado por: Emma Forrest
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just 22 and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist--a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life.
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Great, quick read
- De Amazon Customer en 02-12-21
De: Emma Forrest
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Fairyland
- A Memoir of My Father
- De: Alysia Abbott
- Narrado por: Alysia Abbott
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene.
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Great representation of the time
- De AvidReader22 en 06-07-19
De: Alysia Abbott
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Lit
- A Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness - and her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott" awakens her to the possibility of joy, and leads her to an unlikely faith.
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Finally! One for the "Win" column
- De Kim en 03-22-10
De: Mary Karr
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10:04
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
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A novel worth reading
- De Bradley Paul Valentine en 01-29-15
De: Ben Lerner
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Smashed
- Story of a Drunken Girlhood
- De: Koren Zailckas
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual". With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at 14, alcohol poisoning at 16, blacked-out sexual experience at 19, and total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at 22.
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Smashed
- De John Riggs en 07-14-05
De: Koren Zailckas
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Stories I Tell Myself
- Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
- De: Juan F. Thompson
- Narrado por: Juan F. Thompson
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly"; boy of the South; born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky; son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom; public school-educated; jailed at 17 on a bogus petty robbery charge; member of the US Air Force (airman second class); copy boy for Time; writer for The National Observer; et cetera.
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Hunter Remembered
- De Karen Loucks Rinedollar en 03-31-16
De: Juan F. Thompson
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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Because I Come from a Crazy Family
- The Making of a Psychiatrist
- De: Edward M. Hallowell
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.
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Love and connection permeates through this book!
- De Steve Steinmetz en 06-29-18
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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The Unspeakable
- And Other Subjects of Discussion
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Meghan Daum
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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The Wife
- A Novel
- De: Meg Wolitzer
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are 35,000 feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent 40 years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop.
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A bit of a downer
- De Jody Cox en 08-01-18
De: Meg Wolitzer
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Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other?
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With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; and more...
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Some truly great parts
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Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm. In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond.
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Masterful writing
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52 Blue
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At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency - 52 hertz - never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind.
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Moby Dick’s reincarnation?
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Drinking
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
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The Big Picture of Alcohol Dependence
- De Karen K en 07-26-16
De: Caroline Knapp
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Alice & Oliver
- A Novel
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- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman, MacLeod Andrews
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The award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family’s journey through a medical crisis, laying bare a couple’s love and fears as they fight for everything that’s important to them.
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What happened?
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The Empathy Exams
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Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other?
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provocative
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn
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With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; and more...
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Some truly great parts
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Splinters
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Masterful writing
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52 Blue
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At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency - 52 hertz - never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind.
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Moby Dick’s reincarnation?
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Drinking
- A Love Story
- De: Caroline Knapp
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
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The Big Picture of Alcohol Dependence
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Alice & Oliver
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The award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family’s journey through a medical crisis, laying bare a couple’s love and fears as they fight for everything that’s important to them.
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We All Fall Down
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In this powerful and immensely engaging follow-up to his first memoir, Sheff picks up where he left off and reveals his first-person account of stints at in-patient rehabilitation facilities, devastating relapses with alcohol and marijuana, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young adult living with addiction.
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Disappointed
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Smashed
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From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual". With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at 14, alcohol poisoning at 16, blacked-out sexual experience at 19, and total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at 22.
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Smashed
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Glorious Rock Bottom
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Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number one best-selling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic 20-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life.
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absolutely fabulous ⭐
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De: Bryony Gordon
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Stash
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After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—from stockpiling pills in her Louboutins to elaborately scheduling withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins settles into a complicated purgatory. She learns the hard way that privilege doesn’t protect you from pain. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and internalized racism, Robbins wonders just how much more she can take. Now, with courage, she reveals how she managed to begin the long journey toward sobriety and unexpectedly finding new love.
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Best Mom/wife alcoholism memoir I’ve read
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Peggy
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Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She’s in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic.
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In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on 60 videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past.
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An Act of Addiction
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Hit So Hard
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Patty Schemel was a drummer at the epicenter of the Seattle grunge scene in the early '90s, best known for her work with the alternative rock band Hole. Hit So Hard begins with stories from a childhood informed by the AA meetings Schemel's parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her rebellious adolescence and first forays into drinking at age 11, which coincided with her passion for punk rock and playing drums.
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The BEST Book I have ever read. Hands Down.
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Lit
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Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness - and her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott" awakens her to the possibility of joy, and leads her to an unlikely faith.
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Finally! One for the "Win" column
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Dry
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- Narrado por: Augusten Burroughs
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At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. When Augusten is forced to examine himself, he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power
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Sobriety with a sense of style....
- De heidi en 09-28-03
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Broken
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In Broken, William Cope Moyers tells the story of a love affair with alcohol and crack cocaine that led him to the brink of death over and over again. A harrowing account, it paints a picture of a young man with every advantage who found himself spiraling into a dark abyss. Battling shame and self-doubt at every turn, the author finally emerges into the clear light of recovery as he dedicates his life to changing the politics of addiction.
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AGONIZING arrogance, entitlement, self promotion
- De karen McCann en 03-14-19
De: William Cope Moyers, y otros
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Quitter
- A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
- De: Erica C. Barnett
- Narrado por: Jean Ann Douglass
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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A startlingly frank memoir, Quitter documents one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatment.
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Long Drunkaloug But Well Defined
- De Danielle T en 11-16-20
De: Erica C. Barnett
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Drunk Mom
- A Memoir
- De: Jowita Bydlowska
- Narrado por: Meredith Mitchell
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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A best seller in its native Canada, Drunk Mom is a gripping, brutally honest memoir of motherhood in the shadow of alcoholism. Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.
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A not very lovely story that I love anyway.
- De Alixandra Hice en 01-12-15
De: Jowita Bydlowska
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- Brittaney
- 09-11-18
Sure, why not?
it lost me occasionally but that didn't hurt the story line. interesting angle. a bit of a love story to writers. could be shorter but I liked it. an easy listen.
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- Pia M Loft
- 06-16-18
Visceral reaction to descriptions of addiction
The author did a wonderful job describing the feelings of need and addiction while intertwining her personal story with those of others.
At first, I was annoyed by the author’s “vocal fry” but enjoyed the narrative so much that I stopped focusing on such a trivial issue.
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- Seth William Brown
- 02-26-19
Basic.
I didn’t buy her story as being anything out of the ordinary. Anybody who went to a large public university in the United States knows a dozen women just like her.
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- Anneke M. Post
- 05-11-18
Strong writing
Vocal fryyyyyyy- a voice actor would have been better.
She really is a wonderful writer, and Her story is moving, but the themes seem to be repeated one or two too many times. By the end I was longing for it to just end already.
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- Steven Babin
- 01-12-19
I would marry this woman
I’m surprised about the negative reviews. This is an honest portrayal about what it’s kike to be a fucked up person with a big brain that can write (real good, most of the time—lol). I think the author does a nice job—I listened to it in two sittings. She is honest about her insecurity, deep indescribable longing to be needed, her alcoholism, her delusion about drinking, uncertainty, and beauty. I think this memoir fills an important space within the greater space recovery stories—AAs with fancy degrees and credentials. Smart people can get clean too. I’ve seen it.
To the author—the headline should be funny, not creepy. Your friend, SCB
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- E-Marie
- 06-04-18
What successful creative non fiction looks like
This book is a beautiful fusion of research, history, and baring, bearing, and sharing the deeply personal.
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- meghan
- 04-24-18
not just another addiction war story
Great to hear someone want to talk about their recovery and not act as though the story ends after quitting. life is hard and messy in addiction but also recovery. very well written and researched.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-01-20
Read this!!
Anyone who has ever struggled will get something from this. So well thought out, and really good!
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- RR
- 04-05-18
15 Minutes of Her Voice More Than I Could Endure
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Content might be good but if vocal fry annoys you, then NO! Stephen King gave it a good review so there must be something worthy about it. When I get time I'll check it out from library and read it. Audio version is unlistenable for me.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Couldn't get very far so can't say. Will return it.
What didn’t you like about Author’s performance?
Her voice. Why oh why do authors insist on reading their own work rather than hiring one of the many professional narrators who do it so much better? I found myself constantly waiting for the next time she'd end a sentence with a strangled rasp. She does it randomly instead of regularly so it seems like a lack of training and/or discipline. Too bad. I was looking forward to the book.
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- kgohl
- 02-26-19
I love it when that happens!
This is a beautifully written, well-crafted book on a topic I never would have thought I'd care about. I love it when that happens! The reviews I read of the book in the mainstream press made it seem extraordinary, so I decided I'd give it a go. Initially, I thought I'd stumbled on another book written by a drama queen, but I persisted beyond the first chapter or two to find myself drawn in by the author's experiences (she is in fact not a drama queen), as well as by the unusual bits of literary and social history she presents. By halfway through I was listening nonstop and beginning to wonder why there aren't many more alcohol- and drug-addicted people among us. If you have a little patience, a love of the possibility of language, and a willingness to follow where the author wants to lead, I think you will find the book compelling. I highly recommend it.
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