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The Recovering - Intoxication and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
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The Recovering - Intoxication and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
You Save R178 (23%)
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery
is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and
seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and
reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the
traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the
story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train
wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell
about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we
want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All
the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of
the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and
class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.
At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with
literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by
alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean
Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David
Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as
George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through
its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering
also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way
our desires can make us all, as she puts it, broken spigots of
need. It's about the particular loneliness of the human
experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who
we are. For her striking language and piercing observations,
Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and
Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something
new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing
less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ
large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for
years to come.
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