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Product Identifiers

PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated

ISBN-101433204681

ISBN-139781433204685

eBay Product ID (ePID)20069235912

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeautiful Boy : a Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction

Publication Year2008

TopicSubstance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Personal Memoirs, General, Psychopathology / Addiction

LanguageEnglish

GenreSelf-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorDavid Sheff

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 In.

Item Length5.8 In.

Item Width5.8 In.

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsSheff's intense memoir is hard to put down...A must-read for, at the least, anyone in similar straits., Sheff writes with amazing candor...Anthony Heald narrates, poignantly capturing Sheff's highs and lows. Powerful, engaging, instructive., Those of us who love an addict--or are addicts ourselves--will find Beautiful Boy a revelation. David Sheff knows all too well what must be endured with faith, and his extraordinary book describes it better than anything else I've read. While painfully candid, Beautiful Boy is equally optimistic and powerful., [A] moving, heartbreaking account...Anthony Heald does an excellent job with the reading, his voice and intonation conveying the pain and discouragement Sheff must have felt over his son's condition.

Dewey Decimal362.29/9 B

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisAnyone who cares about an addict will find hope in Sheffs forthright, one-of-a-kind account of his struggle to overcome his sons methamphetamine habit., The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father's love: "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 Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée 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's drug addiction. David'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 wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs--denial, 3 a.m. phone calls--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. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.