![]() ![]() Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is - including a judge, a mobster, a one-time world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute to whom he is not allowed to speak ó but their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinicís droning dogma of How to Recover. But A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recalls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughsís Junky. He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facilityís doctors were shocked he was still alive. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. ![]()
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