The Black Pool - A Memoir of Forgetting

Following an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood, it''s about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence - from work, to relationships, to writing, to anger. The Black Pool shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It''s a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. Towards the end, it achieves something like serenity - something like recovery.

About the author

Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the long poem Rory Gallagher--Live!--from the Hotel of the Dead and the memoir The Black Pool.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Macgabhann
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399728249
• ISBN: 978-1-399-72824-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Dublin, Buenos Aires, Mexico, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, Spain, Argentina, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Mexico City, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Ireland, Autobiography: literary, Literary essays, Autobiography: writers, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Barcelona (City), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional