{"product_id":"books-the-gilded-razor-by-sam-lansky","title":"The Gilded Razor","description":"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, \u003ci\u003e The Gilded Razor\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful addition to the literature of active addiction and recovery (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Bill Clegg) from debut author Sam Lansky. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Razor\u003c\/i\u003e is the true story of a double life that \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author George Hodgman called virtuosic. By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed from the glittering streets of Manhattan, to a wilderness boot camp in Utah, to a psych ward in New Orleans, he only found more opportunities to create chaos--until finally, he began to face himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Razor\u003c\/i\u003e is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism and one of the best portraits about the implacable power of addiction (Susan Cheever, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDrinking in America\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670123536657,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781476776156.jpg?v=1781510695","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-gilded-razor-by-sam-lansky","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}