They should be mandatory reading for every teenager and every parent of one.", The trajectory of drug addiction is nothing new, but Sheff's lucid, simple prose makes the heartbreaking journey seem fresh., A raw and sad account, vivid in its depiction of the pleasures and tunnel vision of addiction and the challenges of sobriety. It's a harrowing portrait-but not one without hope.įull of jaw-tightening and occasionally grisly scenes of shooting up, deals gone bad, guns and sex, Sheff's story takes off like a shot in the arm with a terse, honest and spontaneous narrative., "Tweakis.Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head - and the kid can write." -Seattle Weekly, " Tweak is.Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head - and the kid can write." - Seattle Weekly, "Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight." - Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives, "Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight." - Armistead Maupin, author ofThe Night ListenerandMichael Tolliver Lives, Review of Tweak and Beautiful Boy : "Both takes on this story are riveting, brilliantly written, thoughtful, searingly honest and equally essential. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery. OL16630937W Page_number_confidence 94.13 Pages 360 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220314155813 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 305 Scandate 20220311092931 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781416972198 Tts_version 4.The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timoth e Chalamet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:08:43 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40396110 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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