The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath

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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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ISBN-13: 9781783781539
ISBN-10: 178378153X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: GRANTA BOOKS

Notă biografică

Leslie Jamison is the author of the essay collectionThe Empathy Exams, aNew York Timesbestseller, and the novelThe Gin Closet, a finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. She is a contributing writer for theNew York Times Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications includingThe Atlantic,Harper's, theNew York Times Book Review, theOxford American, and theVirginia Quarterly Review. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist Charles Bock, and their two daughters.

Recenzii

"An astounding triumph...A recovery memoir like no other...Jamison is a writer of prodigious ambition...Here, she's a bare-it-all memoirist, an astute critic, and a diligent archivist all in one. The book knows no bounds, building in depth and vitality with each passing concern...There's something profound at work here, a truth about how we grow into ourselves that rings achingly wise and burrows painfully deep."—David Canfield,Entertainment Weekly (A)
"A sprawling, compelling, fiercely ambitious book...Its publication represents the most significant new addition to the canon in more than a decade...Jamison's writing throughout is spectacularly evocative and sensuous...She thinks with elegant precision, cutting through the whiskey-soaked myths...Jamison is interested in something else: the possibility that sobriety can form its own kind of legend, no less electric, and more generative in the end."—Sophie Gilbert,The Atlantic
"Masterful...beautifully honest...Essential reading...The most comprehensive study of the relationship between writing and alcohol that I have read, or know about...The prose is clean and clear and a pleasure to read, utterly without pretension. Although the subject is dark, Jamison has managed to write an often very funny page turner...In short,The Recoveringis terrific, and if you're interested in the relationship between artists and addiction, you must read it."—Clancy Martin,Bookforum
"Magnificent and genuinely moving.This is that rare addiction memoir that gets better after sobriety takes hold."—Dwight Garner,New York Times
"A remarkable feat...Jamison is a bracingly smart writer; her sentences wind and snake, at turns breathless and tense...Instead of solving the mystery of why she drank, she does something worthier, digging underneath the big emptiness that lives inside every addict to find something profound."—Sam Lansky,Time
"Riveting...Jamison orchestrates a multi-voiced, universal song of lack, shame, surrender, uncertain and unsentimental redemption...It is a pleasure and feels like a social duty to report that Jamison's book shines sunlight on these creepy, crepuscular enchantments. Wisdom floods the scene, and genius never flees. Quite on its own terms,The Recoveringis abeautifully toldexample of the considered and self-aware becoming art."—Priscilla Gilman,Boston Globe
"Such is Jamison's command of metaphor and assonance that she could rivet a reader with a treatise on toast.We perhaps have no writer better on the subject of psychic suffering and its consolations."—Gary Greenberg,The New Yorker
"Brilliant...We are aware, most fundamentally, of Jamison's urgency. This, of course, is as it should be, for sheis writing to survive...The Recoveringleaves us with the sense of a writer intent on holding nothing back."—David L. Ulin,Los Angeles Times
"Fascinating...energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting, and spot-on...Emotional, as well as factual, honesty is the sine qua non of a memoir. Yet this kind of deep honesty--the merciless self-examination and exposure that Jamison displays--is increasingly rare."—Melanie Thernstrom,New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful...wholly original...it shines."—Matt McCarthy,USA Today
"Thoughtful, fiercely honest, and intimate,The Recoveringis a must-read that isJamison at her best."—Jarry Lee,Buzzfeed
"Precise and heartfelt...The Recoveringisa magnificent achievement."—Scott F. Parker,Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Jamison writes about personal experiences in a way that feels universal...Her vulnerability and determination are present on every page."—Maris Kreizman,Esquire
"Like Mary Karr'sLitor Caroline Knapp'sDrinking: A Love Story, Jamison'sperceptive and generous-heartednew book is uncompromising on the ugliness of addiction, yet tenderly hopeful that people can heal...Jamison isa writer of exacting grace...Her prose reaches a new register in conveying the rawness of early sobriety...She captures with fullness the feeling of growing up and growing into oneself."—Nora Caplan-Bricker,Washington Post
"As engaging as it is thoughtful. Jamison proves both an insightful guide to decades of literature by and about addicts, and a self-aware chronicler of her own struggle with alcoholism...InThe Recovering, she has written a movingly humble book, filled to the brim with lessons learned the hard way."—The Economist
"Gritty...Raw...Thought-provoking and distinct...Fascinating in ways you might not expect...The Recoveringventures beyond the cliché and the ordinary to remind us once again of both the fallibility and resiliency of the human condition."—Alexis Burling,San Francisco Chronicle
"As a reader of this most consuming book,I celebrate Jamison's deep openheartedness, deliberate unselfishness, immaculate, inculcating vision, and her language--oh, her language...For her intelligence, her compassion, her capaciousness, her search, her deep reading, her precise language, Jamison must be honored here."—Beth Kephart,Chicago Tribune
"Poignant...Taut and immediate."—Sophia Nguyen,Village Voice
"A latter-day Susan Sontag...the author of the genre-changing collectionThe Empathy Examstakes her blend of the personal, reportorial, and scholarly to expansive new lengths and depths...it's the uniqueness of her case studies, as well as the power of addiction as metaphor, that really make it stand out."—Boris Kachka,New York
"A beautiful behemoth."—Jaime Green,GQ
"Thebreadth of Jamison's knowledge on this subject is impressive . . . The writingis beautiful. There are descriptive phrases that are simply breathtaking . . .Icouldn't put the book down. . . More than that, I was genuinely movedby how accurately Jamison captures the experience of addiction, the hollows weall try to fill with one thing or another."—Roxane Gay,New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist
"The Recoveringfollows the story of Jamison's alcoholism in lush, almost caressing detail...For the most part, Jamison's story was the only one I cared about, not because her drunkalog, as she calls it, is different from or better than anyone else's, but because she was so fully there, in her own thronged and fraught mind, illuminating it from the inside. She worries that that kind of interiority suggests a fatal selfishness. But the promise of books is that we are bound up and implicated in other people's lives, even if they have nothing to do with us. Her story is ours now--what a gift."—Annalisa Quinn,NPR
"The Recoveringis a typically adroit offering from Leslie Jamison, who has been deservedly compared to Joan Didion. The work and lives of Jean Rhys, John Berryman, William Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, and many others are featured in fascinating detail, but the thread drawing them all together is that it is told from the perspective of a former alcoholic. Now recovered, Jamison dissects the fetishization of 'whiskey and ink': the romanticization of the 'old, mythic drunks' such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner . . . The book is a compelling work made possible by Jamison's formidable knowledge . . . but the real subject ofThe Recovering, its driving force, is Jamison herself. This is a memoir of alcoholism deftly mediated through the lives of others, where trauma and abjection (and, equally, seduction) are patched together with collective experience to produce a nuanced, tender portrait of life with and after alcohol."—Lucy Watson,Prospect
"With intricate detail and multilayered storytelling,The Recoveringlays bare the myths surrounding artists and addiction . . . Jamison's exploration of how culture impacts the direction that addiction takes people is, while not new, framed in a nuanced context, giving new breath and voice to an old problem . . .This book reads like a fine poem.Encompassing depth adorned with eloquence and a marriage of memoir and research, the message is important and should serve to shatter our romanticism of the altered artist's contributions. Jamison digs deeply into the mythical cloud billowing around writers and what's in their glass, proving sobriety is a creative force to be lauded."—Christina Ledbetter,Associated Press
"The book offers a pleasing corrective to the ideal ofthe drunken seer-poet, swilling gin in the hope that it might bring them onewoozy step closer to the tragedy and poetry of life. It also proceeds withaccessible lyricism and disarming frankness, a style that serves as anextension of the book's message that sobriety hardly means the end of poetry,of the clarifying intoxification of language." —Ted Scheinman,Pacific Standard
"Leslie Jamison's forthcoming 544-page door-stopper,The Recovering, promises the same blend of memoir, reportage, and cultural history as her excellent 2014 collection of essays,The Empathy Exams. InThe Recovering, Jamison details the ups and downs of her own struggles with alcohol. Looking to famous alcoholic writers, Jamison additionally battles her fear of the boredom of sobriety, describing it with arresting, brutal honesty. This is so much more than an "addiction memoir" -- it is the work of a singular voice at the top of her game."—Jeva Lange,The Week
"Breaks the addiction-lit mold."—Sloane Crosley,Vanity Fair
"Symphonic...Beautiful and moving...Jamison writes with poignancy and compassion of hard-won triumphs, hers and others'. She is honest and observant, at times lyrical, about her experiences in AA, what the group gives its members, but also what they lose when they get sober. She writes about the sense of of fellowship in meetings viscerally, like a churchgoer describing a powerful service...The Recoveringis an exhaustive and definitive Big Book."—Kate Christensen, Wall Street Journal
"Jamison is preternaturally canny . . . She provides unexpected perceptions and expertly distilled research . . .The Recoveringbursts with insight on how we scramble together our identities, told in a voice that manages by some literary legerdemain to be both winsomely idiosyncratic and resoundingly collective . . . The book is a story of the long, painful, resistant, and unoriginal road to getting--and staying--sober as much as it is a narrative of addiction. But it also conveys the 'sinuous, glimmering energy of recovery.' . . . Along the way, it mutates from one gifted and successful young woman's tale into a larger inquiry into how we seek to heal ourselves . . . Part confession, part literary criticism, part cultural analysis, part musing, and part hard-edged reporting,The Recoveringcreates its own grainy context, defying all the usual tropes of addiction memoirs . . . Jamison has written an extraordinary document of self-reckoning that will make you think and rethink the trajectory of your own life in its 'mundane realities' as well as its 'cinematic epic mode.' This is a book about one of us, all of us, and the yearnings that take us to dark as well as light-filled places."—Daphne Merkin,The New Republic
"The Recoveringis full to the brim with beauty. Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse, and David Foster Wallace: The skill and admiration with which she illuminates these complicated lives shows how Jamison herself is touched by the same brand of genius, for better or for worse."—Rachel Veroff,Guernica
"Jamison is one of the most insightful, introspective, and compassionate authors I have ever encountered, and all of those qualities make her writing about love as sage, biting, and incisive as her writing on addiction...The Recoveringproved the secret superpower of memoir as a genre: that someone's darkest secrets and most shameful, hidden thoughts and insecurities can be exactly the thing that someone else needs to read."—Cristina Arreola,Bustle
"Thrilling...Dynamic...Jamison has proven herself to be both a fierce intellectual and an extreme empath...She's writtena singular, extraordinarily insightful memoir of addiction,one which she might insist is altogether ordinary. That a reader might recognize herself in these pages, familiar as they are, is, of course, part of their power."—Laura Adamczyk,AV Club
"Using a blend of memoir, investigative reporting, and literary criticism, Jamison deftly tells a new narrative about recovery, the history of recovery, the criminalization of addiction, and more."—Liberty Hardy,Book Riot
"Stunning... Her language manages somehow to be simultaneously lush and piercing. It is richly imaged, delighting the senses with its descriptive texture."—Los Angeles Review of Books
The breadth of Jamison's knowledge on this subject isextensive and there beautifully written moments throughout coupled withinteresting insights about the sociopolitical implications of addiction and howprivilege can shape the experience of addiction. This book is a beautiful messand well worth reading."—Roxane Gay,Omnivoracious
"Leslie Jamison, the accomplished scholar and venerated essayist, has written a great book . . . She dazzles us with her feats of scholarship . . . The sheer immensity of the book is noteworthy . . .The Recoveringis a magisterial survey of recovery literature and a beautifully written memoir in its own right."—Garrett Kamps,Huffington Post
"Jamison is a notablylyrical writer, but what really shines is her curious, generous, sensitivemind... It's a rich and powerful chorus."—Thrillist
"The Recoveringopens our eyes...This book should be required reading--simultaneously informative and chilling, it details the devastation of alcoholism as Jamison bares all, her story the tale of many who sit humbly in circles in 12-Step rooms. Readers will wish the best for this brave soul."—The Missourian

"LeslieJamison has written an honest and important book. It will be important torecovering alcoholics who wonder if there really is life after booze, and Ithink it will be important to writers and critics, because she weaves her storyof recovery into those of other artists (mostly writers, but also BillieHoliday and Amy Winehouse) who also made the jump from soused to sober. Andsome who didn't. The most important thematic thread may be its insistence thatthe talented artist who needs booze or drugs to support his work and withstandhis own vision does not, in fact, exist. It's important to debunk what ToddRundgren called 'the ever popular tortured artist effect.' All in all, vividwriting and required reading."

—Stephen King
"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 ofFar From the TreeandThe Noonday Demon
"LeslieJamison has done a magnificent job of rescuing an age-old social problemfrom the clichés that surround it, and making us see it anew for the cruelassault on the human spirit that it really is."—Vivian Gornick,author of Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City
"You don't need to be an addict to be enthralled byThe Recovering.This book is for anyone interested in a dazzlingly brilliant, uncommonly compassionate, and often hilarious study of human nature. Leslie Jamison's work will definitely make you feel smarter--I'd like to borrow her brain to pick a fight with a couple of people--butThe Recoveringalso reads like a gripping mystery as written by a subversive and deeply passionate philosopher. Her writing is unexpected, profound, and perverse--in short, a thrill to read. Best of all, for a writer so gifted at locating the excruciating commonalities of isolation, Jamison manages this greatest feat of magic: when I read her words, I come away feeling less alone."
—Mary-Louise Parker,author of New York Times bestseller Dear Mr. You

"LeslieJamison'sThe Recoveringis a definitive investigationof both the romance of intoxication and the possibilities for recovery. Whetherinterviewing veterans of a communal rehab house, digging through thearchives of alcoholic writers, or examining her own motives and thoughts,Jamison shows ways of living alongside contradictions withoutdiminishing their confusion and pain. Graceful, forensic, and intimate,The Recoveringsets a new bar inaddiction studies. It is a courageous and brilliant example of whatnonfiction writing can do."—Chris Kraus,author of I Love Dick
"TheRecoveringis beautifully written, brutally honest, formidably intelligent,emotionally powerful, and absolutely fascinating. Leslie Jamison captured myattention in the very first sentence and didn't let it go for a seconduntil--with reluctance--I finished the very last. Addiction literature has justwelcomed a new classic."—Anne Fadiman,National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The crawl back up to sobriety is as engrossing as thedownward spiral in this unsparing and luminous autobiographical study ofalcoholism...The dark humor, evocative prose, and clear-eyed,heartfelt insights Jamison deploys here only underscore her reputation as awriter of fearsome talent.—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Jamison's questing immersion in intoxication and sobriety is exceptional in its vivid, courageous, hypnotic telling; brilliant in its subtlety of perception, interpretation, and compassion; and capacious in its scholarship, scale, concern, and mission."—Booklist
"Deeply honest...At the heart of this poignant work is an insightful exploration of the loneliness and pain that fuels addiction."—Bookpage
"Throughout Jamison's somber yet earnestly revelatory narrative, she remains cogent and true to her dual commitment to sobriety and to author a unique memoir "that was honest about the grit and bliss and tedium of learning to live this way--in chorus, without the numbing privacy of getting drunk." The bracing, unflinching, and beautifully resonant history of a writer's addiction and hard-won reclamation."—Kirkus
"A staggering investigation into cultural assumptions aboutaddicts, and a necessary critique of a literary scene that idolizes the drunkengenius. . . . In her essay collection,The Empathy Exams, Jamison more than proved herself as anincisive witness to the complicated, messy lives people lead. Her blend ofreportage and personal insight, in the tradition of Joan Didion, is on fulldisplay here. . . . Empathetic and unflinching,The Recoveringoffersa refreshing antidote to narratives that would marry substance abuse tocreativity."—Dave Wheeler,Shelf Awareness
"The sheer immensity of the book is noteworthy . . .TheRecoveringis a magisterial survey of recovery literature and a beautifullywritten memoir in its own right."—Garrett Kamps,HuffPost
"Clever, bold, and earnest . . .The Recoveringmakes for bracing reading . . . Jamison writes wonderfully wellabout the bad old days, beginning with the very early drinking when she felt 'giddyfrom a sense of trespass.' . . .TheRecoveringis an impressive work: difficult, strong, andstrange, both comprehensive and impressionistic, with much to say about how welive, how we yearn, and how we might do both differently."—Susie Boyt,The Spectator (UK)

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