America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life - Couverture souple

Denizet-Lewis, Benoit

 
9780743277839: America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 074327783X ISBN 13 : 9780743277839
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis


AMERICA ANONYMOUS is the unforgettable story of eight men and women struggling with addictions. For nearly three years acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives as they battled drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality.

Alternating with their stories is Denizet-Lewis’s candid account of his own recovery from sexual addiction and his compelling examination of our culture of addiction, where we obsessively search for new and innovative ways to escape the reality of the present moment and make ourselves “feel better.”

Addiction is arguably this country’s biggest public-health crisis, triggering and exacerbating many of our most pressing social problems, from crime to child abuse and neglect. But while cancer and AIDS survivors have taken to the streets and to the halls of Congress demanding to be heard, millions of addicts talk only to one another in the confines of anonymous Twelve Step meetings. Through the riveting stories in this book, Denizet-Lewis shines a spotlight on addiction and breaks through the shame and denial that still shape our understanding of it—and hamper our ability to treat it.

As these eight addicts stumble, fall, and try again to make a different and better life, Denizet-Lewis records their struggles, and his own, with honesty and empathy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with The New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor of writing and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of Travels With Casey, America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, and has contributed to Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Details, Slate, Salon, Out, and many others. Denizet-Lewis lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Follow him @BenoitDLewis.

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
074327783X
ISBN 13 
9780743277839
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2009
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