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Dystopia (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 740
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Dystopia (Paperback)
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Price R274
Discovery Miles 2 740
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From highflying Playboy editor to pathetic homeless alcoholic
addict, Dystopia charts James Siddall's Icarian fall from grace.
It's the sobering tell-all tale of a young, successful, hubristic,
hard-drinking journalist who in his meltdown becomes the scourge of
pubs and shebeens around the country. Regularly found comatose,
collapsed in a puddle of his own excesses, Siddall became a
frequent patient in lock-down psychiatric wards. He finally
confronted himself after being ordered by court to two years in
rehab. Dystopia punches hard in the solar plexus and in a world
awash with so-called misery memoirs and vic-lit (victim literature)
provides a new take on addiction. But far from being a mere account
of sordidness and degradation - or "war story" - it also peels away
the misconceptions about this disease. Dystopia delves deeply into
the myths and misinformation surrounding addiction, a condition
that's been dubbed "the most democratic and painful of all
diseases." Above all Dystopia is a story of triumph where a broken
man finds his way home to become a functioning human being again
and a working journalist. Written by the brilliant and
award-winning James Siddall, this is the book James Frey could have
produced if he told the whole truth.
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