Beautiful Boy A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Scribner UK
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46432
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2018
Verlag
Scribner UKSeitenzahl
448
Maße (L/B/H)
20,1/13,1/3,2 cm
Gewicht
310 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4711-8220-4
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET
‘What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong?’
Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.
Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets.
With haunting candour, David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3am phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll.
But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic. This 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.
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
Read the other side of Nic Sheff's bestselling memoir, Tweak.
Praise for Beautiful Boy:-
'A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts'. Anne Lamott
'An important book... moving, timely and startlingly beautiful.' Richard Branson
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A difficult but necessary read
Beautiful Boy is David Sheff's memoir about trying to cope with his son Nick's addiction. Throughout the book, he reflects on Nick's childhood, desperately searching for answers and trying to understand how everything spiraled into addiction. More than anything, this is a story about the relationship between a father and his son, and about the helplessness, hope, and heartbreak that come with loving someone you cannot save because they have to save themself. This book completely broke me emotionally. It's one of those stories that stays with you long after you've finished reading it. If the topic of addiction is unfamiliar to you, Beautiful Boy sheds light on its complexity, challenges and many common misconceptions. If it is something you've experienced firsthand, there are countless moments that feel painfully real and may help you better understand your own experiences or those of the people around you. Because of that, I genuinely think this is a meaningful, emotional, and worthwhile read for almost anyone.
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