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Approx. 12 hrs. read by Paul Michael Garcia

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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that

followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and

develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like

he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he

needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince

him otherwise. 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. As we watch Nic plunge 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.

It's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope.

Annotation

For further information regarding Nic Sheff and his father David, check

out Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by

David Sheff.


Publishers Weekly

A memoir written in the present tense, Sheff's first book graphically

if self-indulgently recounts his addictions to various drugs, including

meth and heroin, and his attempts at recovery as he reaches his early

20s. His narrative begins as he relapses, not for the first time, after

18 months of sobriety, taking readers down an exhausting spiral that

includes a naïve attempt at dealing drugs; burglarizing his father's

house; hooking up with a vulnerable ex-girlfriend and calling 911 after

she overdoses; sleeping and shooting up in his car; and going back into

detox. The cycle then repeats, in all its minute details. Flashbacks

recall a privileged San Francisco childhood riven by divorce, youthful

promise and subsequent degradation (prostitution, stealing from his

young half-siblings). Nic's absorption in himself, often expressed as

self-contempt, makes much of his account read like a therapeutic exercise,

especially given its repetitious nature. While it's tempting to ask

if Nic's journalist father's version of the same events, in Beautiful

Boy(Nonfiction Reviews, Apr. 30, 2007), supplies the insights missing

here, this book's unmediated, down-and-headed-for-disaster sensibility

may, for some teen readers, produce the same transfixing quality as

a highway accident. Ages 15-up. (Feb.)

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