The Recovering: Intoxication And Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison

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.

Publisher:	Granta Books
Year:	2018
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9781783781522
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy.

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SKU: 1600202
Location: Biography