Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
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品牌: Bill Clegg
基本信息出版社:Little, Brown and Company (2012年4月10日)精装:208页正文语种:英语ISBN:0316122521条形码:9780316122528商品尺寸:14.6 x 1.9 x 21.6 cm商品重量:327 gASIN:0316122521商品描述内容简介The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With seventy-three days in rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including the seemingly unshakably sober Asa and Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse.
At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses for the first time with only three days left. Written with uncompromised immediacy, NINETY DAYS begins wherePortrait of an Addict as a Young Manends-and tells the wrenching story Clegg's battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.媒体推荐"Clegg follows his gut-wrenchingPortrait of an Addict as a Young Manwith an equally stark tale of the hard and ongoing work of recovering from addiction." (BooklistVanessa Bush)
"Clegg's spare, nearly minimalist style complements the drama inherent in his material: it's addition through subtraction. . . .With understated craft, Clegg has written a harrowing story." (Publishers Weekly)
"The author writes with astonishing honesty, infusing the intensely interior narrative with powerful imagery and penetrating insights. Even the short journeys to his daily support groups sound like heroic odysseys....The outcome is never assured, and there are casualties among the sharply drawn characters, most of whom the author seems to know as intimately as his own psyche. Three scant months may not seem like a long time, but for all involved it was an epic period of transformation. At turns cautionary and inspirational, Clegg's saga embraces both the weaknesses and strengths of human nature, while only alluding to the possibility of salvation. A gritty, lyrical and potent portrait of what it really means to be addicted." (Kirkus Reviews)
PRAISE FORPORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN:
"Mesmerizing...Reading it is like letting the needle down on a Nick Drake album. Clegg tells his story in short, atmospheric paragraphs, each separated by white space, each its own strobe-lighted snapshot of decadent poetic memory.... Clegg can write." -Dwight Garner,The New York Times
"Clegg spares no one's feelings, least of all his own; it's not the brutality that makes this book worthwhile but rather the strange beauty of the stream-of consciousness prose." -Mickey Rapkin,GQ
"Beautifully rendered in spare and elegant prose, a rumination on the human condition that recalls William Styron's memoir of depression,Darkness Visible" -Kirk Davis Swinehart,Chicago Tribune