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This book tells a dreadful, familiar tale. Nic’s parents separate, acrimoniously, when he is three. He has his first joint at twelve. By eighteen, he is addicted to the ‘most malefic drug of all’ – methamphetamine (meth). There are worrying disappearances from home, theft (also from home), violence (‘tweaking’) and trouble with the police. But it’s the father who feels guilty. The son just hates himself and takes more meth.
Three things make this book different. Nic does not die (at the time of writing). He writes his side of the story in his own book (“Tweakâ€). His father, a former drug-taker, knew about meth addiction all along – a university friend died of it on the eve of his fortieth birthday.
Alongside the human story, this book examines the origins and usage of meth, its depth of market penetration compared to other drugs and the benefits, or not, of therapy.
A lot of books are just like drugs. Once you have started, you can’t stop. This is one of them. If you are a parent, you need to read it. If you are a teenager, you should read it.
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Beautiful Boy Synopsis
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
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781471177934 |
| Publication date: |
27th December 2018 |
| Author: |
David Sheff |
| Publisher: |
Scribner UK |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
400 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Biographies & Autobiographies
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