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Title: Recovering, The: Intoxication & its aftermath
Author: JAMISON LESLIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/03/2019
Imprint: GRANTA
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent – John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them – to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.
Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.
ISBN: 9781783781539
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Edition: 01