Tweak: Growing Up on Crystal Meth
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1847391621 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Ginee Seo Books hardcover. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. From Publishers Weekly Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were. All rights reserved
As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. 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. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin
His writing has been published in Newsweek, Nerve, and the San Francisco Chronicle. . Still in his early twenties, he continues to fight daily battles with his addictions. NIC SHEFF is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic
"Journey Into Addiction, Good Sequel to "Beautiful Boy"" according to O. Merce Brown. ****This book is much easier to understand if you read the author's father's book, also recently published, called "Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction" by David Sheff. By reading his father's account of the same time, you understand from a parent's p. Don't Go Into That Closet! First off, I should say that I'm not one of those "I read it cover to cover in one day" kind of readers. I hear people say "I couldn't put it down" when describing a book and wonder what kind of life - obviously devoid of things needing to be DONE - they live.That said, I read "Twe. Interesting glimpse into the mind of an addict I bought this book after finishing "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff, mainly because it's pretty rare to get to read both sides of an addiction story. I found this book to be somewhat manic in its retelling of events (expected), raw in its content (appreciated), and very, very candid.