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The son of Jack Canfield, creator of the best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul, speaks out in wry, edgy memoir that chronicles his long road to recovery from heroin addiction, in a book that describes his wacky near-death experiences, delivery of newspapers in satin pants on a unicycle, and more. 50,000 first printing.

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"Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you'd be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told."--Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself

"Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious... [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary...[makes] you laugh out loud."--Associated Press

"An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction."--Booklist

"The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes... The author's deadpan irony is...brilliant..."--Kirkus Reviews

Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you d be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told. --Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself"

Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary [makes] you laugh out loud. --Associated Press"

An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction. --Booklist"

The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes The author s deadpan irony is brilliant --Kirkus Reviews"
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Juggled between an endless succession of friends, relatives, anarchist boarding schools, libertarian commune dwellers, socialist rebels, and born-again circus clowns, Oran Canfield grew up viewing the inconsistencies of the world with a wary eye. The son of Jack Canfield--the motivational speaker and creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul--Oran is intensely self-conscious and reserved, but his life can't seem to leave him alone. Whether he's teaching two hundred eager self-help disciples to juggle (among them a woman with stumps for hands), dodging a series of wacky near-death experiences, delivering newspapers in satin pants on a unicycle, or experimenting with drugs in the back of a Mexican cop car at age thirteen, one thing's for sure: Oran's life is much stranger than fiction.

With mordant wit, Long Past Stopping grapples with the paradoxes of a mad world and shows that feel-good nostrums go only so far. Sometimes the only way out is the hard way.

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  • PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0061450758
  • ISBN 13 9780061450754
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages321
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