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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with drug & alcohol abuse
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Can I Do This?
(Hardcover)
Jamel Freeman; Contributions by Michael Haller, C Fannie Ellison
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R652
Discovery Miles 6 520
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Can I Do This?
(Paperback)
Jamel Freeman; Contributions by Michael Haller, C Fannie Ellison
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R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Kate Holden's] road to recovery begins when she starts working in a
brothel. The clients seem to fit the same distribution curve -
brutish at one end, sweet at the other - but now that the trade is
coming to her, she draws strength from the power of her allure,
starts to take pride in her work, and discovers she's good at it.
This surprising trajectory, along with its searing intellectual and
emotional honesty and the quality of the writing, easily sets In My
Skin apart from most other my-substance-abuse-hell memoirs. - The
Independent on Sunday 21/05/06. Her vivid narrative voice lends a
gritty poetry to her tale of heroin addiction, half-hearted rehab
and prostitution. The book's power to shock rests in its contrasts;
the life Kate led during her 20s may have been unexceptional for
many young women, but not for a pretty, intelligent, middle-class
girl with a classics degree, a job in a bookshop and a loving
family of liberal, politically aware academics. She conjures with
glittering clarity the sense of invincibility that comes with the
first taste of adult life, the belief that drugs can make love and
art transcendent, the conviction that you are in control.In My Skin
is a compelling story of love and squalor that retains humanity and
sympathy. - The Observer, 14/05/06.
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