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Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in
Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of
Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the
self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life,
Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and
into sobriety. In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello
starred in a film version of Permanent Midnight to much acclaim.
Nic Sheff, author of Tweak, writes the introduction to this
edition.
This New York Times "bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction
to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful
tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his
father's parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy."
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years
that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and
Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even
so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life
together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one
summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is
raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling,
heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to
recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of
drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with
his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.
It's a harrowing portrait--but not one without hope.
In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On
Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a
young person's struggles with relapse and rehab. In his bestselling
memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping
roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful
follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes
candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating
relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a
young person living with addiction. By candidly revealing his own
failures and small personal triumphs, Nic inspires readers to
maintain hope and to remember that they are not alone in their
battles. A group reading guide is included. Nic Sheff's Tweak, We
All Fall Down, and his father's memoir about him (Beautiful Boy)
are the basis of the film Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell and
Timothee Chalamet.
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