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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Jamison, Leslie
by Jamison, Leslie | HC | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780316259613
- Book Title
- Recovering : Intoxication and Its Aftermath
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit
- Topic
- Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Personal Memoirs, Creative Ability, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Psychopathology / Addiction, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 27.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." -- Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." -- Boston Globe "An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen King "Perceptive and generous-hearted . . . Uncompromising . . . Jamison is a writer of exacting grace." -- Washington Post From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316259616
ISBN-13
9780316259613
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239591322
Product Key Features
Book Title
Recovering : Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Personal Memoirs, Creative Ability, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Psychopathology / Addiction, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
27.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv4998.J36 2018
Reviews
Advance praise for THE RECOVERING: "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
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-946582
Dewey Decimal
362.29092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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