Leaving Dirty Jersey by James Salant
It was to take a near-psychotic event to finally get him to clean up. With graphic descriptions of life on crystal meth - the insatiable sex drive, the paranoia, the desperate need for more drugs to sustain the high - James' writing mimics the emotional detachment of the drug and the wired yet aimless life it induces.
If prose were a mind-altering substance, James Salant would be your neighbourhood pusherLord knows, the man will make an addict of you -- Koren Zailckas, author of SMASHED: GROWING UP A DRUNK GIRL
Normally I hate to tell anyone what to do, or what to think, or read. But I honestly believe every parent should read this book. And every teenager on the verge of a drug trip should read it. And everyone else, too. It's that good, that important -- Dava Sobel, author of LONGITUDE
Leaving Dirty Jersey is a harrowing, pitiful account of one guy's demise into full scale addiction and insanity ... Up there with Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries for drug rites of passage books * Blowback Magazine *
Like watching a car crash, the gruesome details - drug deals gone wrong, violence and seedy motels - make the book compulsive reading * Big Issue *
Completely addictive ... brilliant * Word Magazine *
Normally I hate to tell anyone what to do, or what to think, or read. But I honestly believe every parent should read this book. And every teenager on the verge of a drug trip should read it. And everyone else, too. It's that good, that important -- Dava Sobel, author of LONGITUDE
Leaving Dirty Jersey is a harrowing, pitiful account of one guy's demise into full scale addiction and insanity ... Up there with Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries for drug rites of passage books * Blowback Magazine *
Like watching a car crash, the gruesome details - drug deals gone wrong, violence and seedy motels - make the book compulsive reading * Big Issue *
Completely addictive ... brilliant * Word Magazine *
James Salant has been clean since September 2003. After his release from a court-mandated stay at a rehabilitation programme he has lived in New Jersey, working as office manager an educational consulting firm which manages an academy for students who are experiencing difficulties, and as a floor trainer at a health club in Princeton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091920340 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091920345 |
| Title | Leaving Dirty Jersey |
| Author | James Salant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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