The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath / Leslie Jamison.
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction--both her own and others'--and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316259613
- ISBN: 0316259616
- Physical Description: 533 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: Hardback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
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Subject: | Addicts > Rehabilitation. Alcoholics > Rehabilitation. Recovering addicts > Case studies. Recovering alcoholics > Case studies. |
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Camden County Library District - Osage Beach | Biography JAMISON (Text) | 31320003614109 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | 616.86 JAM SMOKING/ADDICTION (Text) | 33042004530427 | Adult Health Neighborhood | Available | - |
Carthage Public Library | 616.8603 J24r (Text) | 34MO2001799471 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Caruthersville Public Library | 616.86 JAM (Text) | 38417100414186 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Crawford County Library-Bourbon | 616.86 JAM (Text) | 33431000435410 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | 616.8603 JAMISON (Text)
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Jefferson County Library-Windsor | 616.8603 JAMISON (Text) | 30065010093794 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Morgan County Library | 362.29 JAM (Text) | 35319000180656 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
North Kansas City Public Library | 616.8603 JAMISON 2018 (Text) | 0001002237731 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
St. Joseph - East Hills Library | 616.8603 JAM 2018 (Text) | 32002004744353 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |