ISBN: 9781783781539 - The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (26 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction. A magisterial account of addiction, recovery and creative lives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Alle Geschichten von Sucht gleichen einander, doch jeder Süchtige glaubt, auf ganz eigene Weise unglücklich zu sein. Das begriff Leslie Jamison, als sie begann, Treffen der Anonymen Alkoholiker zu besuchen: Sie trank, weil sie ihre Mängel verbergen und um jeden Preis besonders sein wollte. Sie würde erst genesen, wenn sie nicht mehr auf ihrer Originalität beharrte. Mitreißend erzählt sie von ihrer Abhängigkeit und hält sie gegen die populären Mythen trunkener Genialität - über Raymond Carver, Billie Holiday, David Foster Wallace und viele andere. 'Die Klarheit' ist eine persönliche und kollektive Geschichte des Trinkens und des nüchternen Lebens - klug, bewegend aufrichtig und von unverhoffter Schönheit.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction. A magisterial account of addiction, recovery and creative lives. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction. A magisterial account of addiction, recovery and creative lives. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. A magisterial account of addiction, recovery and creative lives.Der New-York-Times-Bestseller von Leslie Jamison ist Ein ehrliches und wichtiges Buch. Pflichtlektuere. Stephen KingAlle Geschichten von Sucht gleichen einander, doch jeder Suechtige gl.

Paperback. Condition: New. Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Recovering | Intoxication and its Aftermath | Leslie Jamison | Taschenbuch | Granta Books | 536 S. | Englisch | 2019 | Granta Publications | EAN 9781783781539 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …