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Beautiful Boy - A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback, Film Tie-In)
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Beautiful Boy - A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback, Film Tie-In)
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THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING
STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET
'What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I
do wrong?' Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every
moment of David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to
drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became
addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny,
a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger
siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole,
and lived on the streets. With haunting candour, David Sheff traces
the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3am phone calls (is
it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab. His
preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the
obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a
journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment
that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic. This story
is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view
- a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance
abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Beautiful Boy is a
fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional
rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. Read the
other side of Nic Sheff's bestselling memoir, Tweak. Praise for
Beautiful Boy:- 'A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating
story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book
will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts'. Anne Lamott 'An
important book... moving, timely and startlingly beautiful.'
Richard Branson
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