Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir - Softcover

Salant, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416955119 ISBN 13: 9781416955115

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2008

Synopsis

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Review:

"This book stands out. The atmosphere and the detail with which the bit players are brought to life recall William S. Burroughs's classic Junky." -- Library Journal

"Normally I hate to tell anyone what to do, or what to think, or read. But I honestly believe every parent should read this book. And every teenager on the verge of a drug trip should read it. And everyone else, too. It's that good, that important." -- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

"Salant makes his mark by telling his tale plainly and well." -- New York Times Book Review

"Salant's story offers an unrelentingly bleak account of one man's encounter with America's crystal meth culture." -- Publishers Weekly

"If prose were a mind-altering substance, James Salant would be your neighbourhood pusher. Lord knows, the man will make an addict of you." -- Koren Zailckas, New York Times bestselling author of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

"Salant gives us a searing, sordid account of his 19th year, spent shooting and smoking meth and heroin in California...he nails the hellish tedium and despair of the addict. His memoir is a dirty bomb lobbed from the trenches of crank addiction." -- Salon.com

From the Publisher:

The extraordinary true story of a young man's descent into crystal meth addiction and his struggle to get clean

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416955119
• ISBN 13: 9781416955115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352