| A Million Little Pieces Contributor(s): Frey, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307276902 ISBN-13: 9780307276902 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: "The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs' Junky." --"The Boston Globe" "Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey's staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic."--"San Francisco Chronicle" "A brutal, beautifully written memoir."--"The Denver Post" "Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can't help but cheer his victory." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Substance Abuse & Addictions - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Self-help | Twelve-step Programs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005282100 |
| Series: Oprah's Book Club |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.25" W x 8.01" (0.75 lbs) 448 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 76681 Reading Level: 4.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 24.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facility s doctors were shocked he was still alive. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recalls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughs s Junky. But A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature. Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is -- including a judge, a mobster, a one-time world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute to whom he is not allowed to speak but their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinic s droning dogma of How to Recover. James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions, and insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become--which runs directly counter to his counselors' recipes for recovery. James has to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he has lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he holds. It is this fight, told with the charismatic energy and power of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, that is at the heart of A Million Little Pieces: the fight between one young man s will and the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion, the fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. A Million Little Pieces is an uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. |