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The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
hardback | English
Published:
3 May, 2018
hardback | English
Published:
3 May, 2018
Description
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.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781783781522 |
| ISBN10 | 1783781521 |
| Number Of Pages | 544 |
| Item Weight | 739 g |
| Product Dimensions | 160 x 38 x 241 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Granta Books |
| Format | hardback |
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Author's Bio
Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic,Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University