Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days
Author: Clegg, Bill
ISBN: 9781784708191
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative - lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written - from which you simply cannot look away.
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.
ISBN: 9781784708191
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative - lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written - from which you simply cannot look away.
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.
