Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery - Hardcover

Clegg, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316122521 ISBN 13: 9780316122528

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 208 in Publisher: Little own of The goal is On ninety Just ninety clean and - sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg. to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly. who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse. and the seemingly unshakably sober Asa. At first . the support is not enough: Clegg relapses with only three days left. Written with uncompromised immediacy. NINETY DAYS begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends-and tells the wrenching story Clegg's battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows. hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.

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Review

"A lot can go wrong with a recovery memoir, but Clegg has a direct, spare style and an engaging voice that is reminiscent, at least to me, of Jean Rhys in her fictional addiction book Good Morning, Midnight. It is because of this immediacy that Ninety Days turns out to be such an exhilarating story of ascent."-- Interview Magazine

"Honest and earnest."-- Wall Street Journal

"Honest and earnest." "Wall Street Journal""

"Clegg has a direct, spare style and an engaging voice that is reminiscent, at least to me, of Jean Rhys in her fictional addiction book Good Morning, Midnight. It is because of this immediacy that Ninety Days turns out to be such an exhilarating story of ascent."--Interview Magazine

"Clegg has rebuilt his career as an agent and become one of the best-known faces of addiction recovery."--Salon.com

"Relationships, rather than high drama, are the real focus of Ninety Days, and as a result there is a tenderness at its heart."--Vogue.com

"Clegg's need to connect saves him....What he has now - fewer secrets, gratitude, relief, an acknowledgement of his vulnerability, time out from his dance with death - adds up, like days."--San Francisco Chronicle

"[Clegg] tells the story in plain, innocence-drenched sentences that bring to mind the wonderful Edmund White, as if to adorn the events would be dishonest."--The Daily Beast

"Honest and earnest."--Wall Street Journal

Book Description

A stark and moving account of relapse and recovery, from the acclaimed author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0316122521
• ISBN 13: 9780316122528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194