April 8, 2014
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction Written By: David Sheff Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks From the Press Release Book Description: David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling ghost-like human who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction. "Sheff does not spare himself or anyone else from keen professional scrutiny any more than he was himself spared the pains and joys of watching a loved one struggling with addiction and recovery....this is an honest, hopeful book, coming at a propitious moment in the meth epidemic."-Publishers Weekly David Sheff's books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His piece for the New York Times Magazine, My Addicted Son, won an award from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addiction. It led to his #1 New York Times Best Seller, Beautiful Boy, which was named the best nonfiction book of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Sheff and his family live in Inverness, California. Already a subscriber to Audiobooks.com? Get: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction Posted by Staff at 1:59 PM |
