{"product_id":"9780349149424","title":"Will and Attention","description":"Author: Meghan O'Gieblyn\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349149424\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 13 Oct 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 288 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA LUMINOUS MEMOIR OF ADDICTION, RECOVERY, AND THE DEEP PULL OF RELIGION FROM AN AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN WRITER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'One of the best memoirs of the decade'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJia Tolentino\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Mesmerizing, invigorating and profound'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Vaye Watkins, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Staggering . . . the single best book about addiction I have ever read'\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeiran Goddard, author of\u003ci\u003e I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e__________________________\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her late thirties, Meghan O'Gieblyn found herself in crisis.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarlier that year, she had relapsed back into an alcohol addiction she had kicked in her twenties. The year before that, she had been briefly drawn back to the faith she had renounced decades earlier, through a friendship she developed with a Catholic priest.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth of these events happened in secret, hidden from everyone close to her, and both felt like acts of regression - a return to paths she had walked before.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fundamentally unsettled her belief that she was a unified self with transparent motives. How is a person to avoid those irrational mistakes that they continually return to, despite knowing they are harmful? Can we truly master our will, or are we always divided selves?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd can we ever satisfy the deep yearning our compulsions speak to?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e__________________________\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eWILL AND ATTENTION . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A brilliant portrait of a brilliant person: gentle, melancholy, bracing, and astute' \u003cb\u003eLorrie Moore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'This is one of the best memoirs of the decade - a cool-water baptism, so bracing I felt transformed'\u003cb\u003e Jia Tolentino, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e culture critic and author of \u003ci\u003eTrick Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A bracing, beautiful book that reads like a fortifying talk with an intimate companion. Mesmerizing, invigorating, and profound'\u003cb\u003eClaire Vaye Watkins, author of \u003ci\u003eI Love You but I've Chosen Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Staggering. This is the single best book about the relationship between faith and addiction I have ever read, which, by definition, makes it \u003cb\u003ethe single best book about addiction I have ever read.\u003c\/b\u003e A prayer to recovery in the deepest sense of the word: the reclamation of something fundamental'\u003cb\u003e Keiran Goddard, author of \u003ci\u003eI See Buildings Fall Like Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Will and Attention\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound act of personal, spiritual, and philosophical inquiry. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time' \u003cb\u003eChloe Benjamin, author of \u003ci\u003eUnder Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one's will to live, what it means to be good, and the worth of devotion'\u003cb\u003e Melissa Febos, bestselling\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67642014138526,"sku":"ADS-9780349149424","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349149424.jpg?v=1792558511","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349149424","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}