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Tweak Nic Sheff

Tweak By Nic Sheff

Tweak by Nic Sheff


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Summary

Aheartbreaking and powerful memoir of a young man's plunge into the mental and physical depths of crystal meth addiction.

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Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth by Nic Sheff

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET

`It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.'

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise.

In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.

Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father's parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy.

Praise for Nic Sheff:-
`Difficult to read and impossible to put down.'Chicago Tribune
'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' Armistead Maupin

Tweak Reviews

'Extremely well written...detailed and visceral.' * Daily Telegraph magazine *
'Both takes on this story are riveting, brilliantly written, thoughtful, searingly honest and equally essential. They should be mandatory reading for every teenager and every parent of one.' * Daily Mail *
'Raw, powerful, and honest.' * The Bookseller *
'Full of jaw-tightening and occasionally grisly scenes of shooting up, deals gone bad, guns and sex, Sheff's story takes off like a shot in the arm with a terse, honest, and spontaneous narrative.' * Kirkus Reviews *
'The trajectory of drug addiction is nothing new, but Sheff's lucid, simple prose makes the heartbreaking journey seem fresh.' * San Francisco Chronicle *
'A raw and sad account, vivid in its depiction of the pleasures and tunnel vision of addiction and the challenges of sobriety.' * Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books *
'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' -- Armistead Maupin
'Difficult to read and impossible to put down.' * Chicago Tribune *
'An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict.' * U.S. News & World Report *
'The harrowing story of a decade of youthful drug abuse.' * The Seattle Post-Intelligencer *
'Riveting.' * Playboy *
'Sheff details his downward spiral, and the reader feels his desperation...' * VOYA *
'Graphic and detailed memoir [that] painfully depicts the author's addiction to methamphetamines and his tortuous, tentative journey to health.' * School Library Journal *
'You begin to understand how love can miss its mark and spiral toward tragedy.' * Reading Room *
'Searingly honest.' * Booklist *

About Nic Sheff

Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.

Additional information

GOR009533274
9781471177941
1471177947
Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth by Nic Sheff
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster Ltd
2018-12-01
464
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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