Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattan''s underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control. Ninety Days begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends - and tells the wrenching story of Bill Clegg''s battle to reclaim his life. The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction. But as any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning. . . Published for the first time in one volume: Bill Clegg''s unflinching account of the addiction that nearly ended everything.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Clegg, Bill Clegg, Clegg Bill
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781784708191
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-819-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Autobiography: literary, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Autobiography: writers, Coping with drug and alcohol problems