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Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ‘It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.’
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at
age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and
develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise.
In a voice that is
raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the
compelling true story of his
relapse and the
road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person
at odds with h
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'Extremely well written...detailed and visceral.' * Daily Telegraph magazine *
'Both takes on this story are riveting, brilliantly written, thoughtful, searingly honest and equally essential. They should be mandatory reading for every teenager and every parent of one.' * Daily Mail *
'Raw, powerful, and honest.' * The Bookseller *
'Full of jaw-tightening and occasionally grisly scenes of shooting up, deals gone bad, guns and sex, Sheff's story takes off like a shot in the arm with a terse, honest, and spontaneous narrative.' * Kirkus Reviews *
'The trajectory of drug addiction is nothing new, but Sheff's lucid, simple prose makes the heartbreaking journey seem fresh.' * San Francisco Chronicle *
'A raw and sad account, vivid in its depiction of the pleasures and tunnel vision of addiction and the challenges of sobriety.' * Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books *
'Nic Sheff’s wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' -- Armistead Maupin
'Difficult to read and impossible to put down.' * Chicago Tribune *
'An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict.' * U.S. News & World Report *
'The harrowing story of a decade of youthful drug abuse.' * The Seattle Post-Intelligencer *
'Riveting.' * Playboy *
'Sheff details his downward spiral, and the reader feels his desperation...' * VOYA *
'Graphic and detailed memoir [that] painfully depicts the author’s addiction to methamphetamines and his tortuous, tentative journey to health.' * School Library Journal *
'You begin to understand how love can miss its mark and spiral toward tragedy.' * Reading Room *
'Searingly honest.' * Booklist *
