New Releases by BILL CLEGG

Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind to want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life-and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN is an utterly compelling narrative-lyrical, irresistible, harsh, and honest-from which you simply cannot look away.

Come Bill Clegg, giovane agente letterario di successo, si lascia travolgere dalla tossicodipendenza e perde tutto, dal lavoro agli affetti, sprofondando in una vita fatta di mille alberghi tutti uguali, voli aerei mai presi, avidità e paranoia, incontri maschili e sesso consumato senza ombra di passione. Un memoir lacerante: l''esplorazione di una deriva cieca, narrata senza facili giustificazioni e priva di autocompiacimento. La storia di una dipendenza assoluta, senza un vero perché. Una discesa negli abissi della paranoia, raccontata con l''implacabile precisione ed eleganza della grande letteratura.

Autobiografisch relaas van een aan crack verslaafde man die pas nadat hij alles in zijn leven was kwijtgeraakt, tot ontwenning en rehabilitatie wist te komen.

Forfatteren var en vellykket litterær agent i New York, med ansvar for flere kjente forfatternavn. Han hadde den perfekte jobben, den perfekte partneren, en trygg familie og en leilighet på Manhattan. Etter en uskyldig flørt med crackens spennende rus, blir veien til ubehjelpelig avhengighet og undergang kort og brutal. Her forteller han om sine opplevelser som rusmisbruker og hvordan han greide å komme tilbake igjen.