Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Sheff, Nic

3.97

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9781433209369: Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

ISBN 10: 1433209365 ISBN 13: 9781433209369

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2008

In this brutally honest memoir, the author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery. Book available.

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Review:

""Tweak" is...Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head -- and the kid can write." -- "Seattle Weekly"

"Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight." -- Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives

"Difficult to read and impossible to put down." -- Chicago Tribune

"Tweak is...Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head -- and the kid can write." -- Seattle Weekly

"An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict." -- U.S. News & World Report

About the Author:

Nic Sheff is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Still in his early twenties, he continues to fight daily battles with his addictions. His writing has been published in Newsweek, Nerve, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Tweak is his first book.

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