Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

A Memoir

Bill Clegg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2010
Jonathan Cape (Verlag)
978-0-224-08907-4 (ISBN)

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This is the story of one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York and his catastrophic fall into full-blown crack addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life. An utterly compulsive narrative of extraordinary frankness, we are led through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattan's underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control. The story is intercut with terrifying flashbacks to his childhood, where a secret physical condition triggers shame, psychological abuse, and the beginnings of his hidden life and addictive personality.

This is not a book about a literary agent, or publishing, or New York - nor is it a book about recovery and redemption - it is a completely compelling, brilliantly written account of how a dynamic young middle-class professional can find himself finally exposed as a helpless addict, de-railed and alone, living for months on a steady diet of crack cocaine and vodka. Written with great literary skill and originality, this is a memoir of disarming honesty and huge emotional power, but it is also, at its heart, a manifest of pure terror.

Bill Clegg has been an agent with William Morris in New York since 2006. This is his first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.6.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 223 mm
Gewicht	365 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-224-08907-2 / 0224089072
ISBN-13	978-0-224-08907-4 / 9780224089074
Zustand	Neuware