The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath - Couverture souple

Jamison, Leslie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178378153X ISBN 13 : 9781783781539

Editeur : Granta Books, 2019

Synopsis

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, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic,Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178378153X
• ISBN 13: 9781783781539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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