The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-2018
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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, this title is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.
Main title:
The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath / Leslie Jamison.
Author:
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-, author
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2018.
Collation:
534 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783781522 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
85168
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