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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man Bill Clegg

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man By Bill Clegg

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg


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Summary

A story of one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York and his catastrophic fall into full-blown crack addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life.

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man Summary

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life?

In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattan's underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control.

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man Reviews

Beautifully measured and adroitly paced ... mixing a matter-of-fact eye for detail with just enough emotion to unsettle and engross ... Addictive and masterful -- Julian Hall * The Independent *
A gripping, graphic memoir that pounds relentlessly to its climax * The Times *
It has the power and precision of the best contemporary fiction. It does what the best writing always does, which is to make Clegg's experience part of your own -- Andrew O'Hagan
It's a remarkable achievement when a writer can evoke the most desperate episodes of addiction with the unflinching honesty required to make such a memoir worth reading, yet somehow manage to completely transcend sleaze, sordidness and vapid self-justification. Bill Clegg's story of a man - largely locked in hotel rooms, engaged in a desperate, heart-wrenching battle with himself - is destined to become a cult classic of writing on drug addiction -- Irvine Welsh
Beautifully written and elegantly frank... lyrical, funny and shattering -- A.L.Kennedy

About Bill Clegg

Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York. He is also the author of Ninety Days. He lives in New York.

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GOR004708134
9780099539827
0099539829
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20120607
240
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