White Out
Autor Michael W. Cluneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2023
Every word is true, but White Out is better and better-written than most novels.
A classic of addiction and recovery, straddling confession, self-help, and dark comedy routine.
How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a "white out," so that every time you use it is the first time-new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune's story takes us straight inside such an addiction-what he calls "the memory disease."
With dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune's account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life-between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature-we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge.
After his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. White Out is more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781946022608
ISBN-10: 1946022608
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 131 x 214 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: McNally Editions
ISBN-10: 1946022608
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 131 x 214 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: McNally Editions
Notă biografică
Michael W. Clune is Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Gamelife, Writing Against Time, American Literature and the Free Market, and A Defense of Judgment.