Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Sheff, Nic

ISBN 10: 1416913629 / ISBN 13: 9781416913627

Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, 2008

About this Item

Hardback with dust jacket. No defects to note on the book or the dust jacket. Book is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to former owner. Memoir of a young man' s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait "but not one without hope. 325 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416913629
• ISBN 13: 9781416913627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: VG+
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG+
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait--but not one without hope.

About the Author

Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.