Smart and charming, with Daddy's money to fall back on, she sort of managed to keep it all together. A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, My Fair Junkie, Amy Dresner, Hachette Books. Amy's memoir digs deep inside the world of addiction and takes you on a ride you'd pay to go on again. The subject field is required. --Amber Tozer, author of Sober Stick Figure "Fascinating. Jeez she had it tough (a fair whack of her own making) but this has helped give me a (helpful) perspective on my own world.
It’s like herding cats... if the cats were on heroin.” Readers meet Dresner at her worst, but she nevertheless charms throughout her healing. Amy, like addiction, is a complicated beast that needs to be unraveled and exposed to understand--and she does just that in My Fair Junkie, an incredible read." My Fair Junkie is a must-read story." --Margaret Cho "Effortlessly candid and wryly written chronicle of a life hijacked by drugs, booze, and bad behavior. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (current situation, international travel). Impossible d'ajouter l'article à votre liste. A Million Little Pieces: A shocking exploration of addiction, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life (Notebook), Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget, The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. --Peter Scolari "Darkly funny, the memoir reckons with demons--sex addiction, drugs, and the quest for sobriety--in brutally honest, entertaining prose." I've loved girls like Amy and they drug my heart through a human sewer of addiction. What makes it so outstanding is Amy’s ruthless candour about her own responsibility in creating the mess she found herself in, and gradually pulling herself out of it. . . 4.7 out of 5 stars 272 ratings. For the next two years, assigned to a Hollywood Boulevard “chain gang,” she would sweep up syringes (and worse) on Hollywood Boulevard as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety, sex addiction, and starting over in her 40s. Other chapters are gilded in some rather self-effacing hindsight wisdom: "I guess I am just one of those stubborn assholes who has to burn their house to the ground to realize you shouldn't play with matches." This book, despite the gravity of her condition, made me laugh out loud but also made me grateful for many things in my life that I had taken for granted. --Women.com, "9 Books About Drug Addiction that Shine Light onto the Disease" search results for this author. Un problème s'est produit lors du chargement de ce menu pour le moment. Believable. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. MY FAIR JUNKIE is the shameless, hilarious, and unfortunately--to Amy--true account of it all. My Fair Junkie - a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman’s twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction. Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? But on Christmas Eve of 2011, all of that changed when, high on Oxycontin, she stupidly “brandished” a bread knife on her husband and was promptly arrested for “felony domestic violence with a deadly weapon.” Within months, she found herself in the psych ward–and then penniless, divorced and looking out on a court-ordered 240 hours of community service. "Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight "Funny, raw, real, and moving. The Sober Survival Guide: How to Free Yourself from Alcohol Forever - Quit Alcohol & Start Living!
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. Funny, harrowing and touching, My Fair Junkie has captured the essence of addiction. "POPSUGAR"Mortifying, hilarious, unsparing, and weirdly life-affirming, My Fair Junkie hits the ground screaming and never lets up. Please enter the message.
Amy Dresner is the most startlingly alert, poetic, stunning writer I have come across in decades. As with all great 'drug memoirs, ' the subject of this raw, squirm-fest of an autobiography is not drugs, but what made drugs necessary: the twisted history and relatably depraved torments of the author's own strung-out heart. In the tradition of Sarah Hepola's Blackout and Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and deeply revealing debut memoir about one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol. A dazzling, gritty, memoir of addiction and self-rescue. Within a few months, she found herself in a psych ward, penniless, abandoned by her then husband, and looking at a sentence of 240 grueling hours of "community service." Dresner brings humility, wit, and sensitivity to a topic many readers are unfamiliar with, and those that are will recognize her truths."
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