A Perfect Heart by John Healy
Since his first appearance on RTÉ's The Restaurant in 2002, celebrity maître d’ John Healy has entertained both diners and viewers alike with his easy manner and winning charm. Seemingly unflappable and endlessly cheerful, he appears the consummate professional. However, behind the smile, John has spent a lifetime struggling to cope with his own demons; battling addiction and depression before suffering two heart attacks and undergoing a subsequent life-saving transplant. A Perfect Heart charts John’s incredible journey towards a new beginning with warmth, humor and honesty. In it, the popular TV star opens up about his present health fears, as well as his past traumas, revealing the sexual abuse he suffered as a child and the hidden side of a drug and alcohol-fueled lifestyle that quickly spiraled out of control.
Healy, John: - John Healy is a writer of novels, plays and an award-winning autobiography, The Grass Arena. He was born in 1942, of an Irish family in North London. John Healy spent fifteen violent, destitute years living rough at a time when begging carried an automatic prison sentence. He became a chess Grand Master. In 1986 he wrote his 'savage masterpiece' The Grass Arena (now a Penguin Modern Classic), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize in 1989 for autobiography. Streets Above Us, his first novel, was published in 1990. THE METAL MOUNTAIN is John Healy's second novel, published 30 years after The Grass Arena.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907593512 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907593519 |
| Title | A Perfect Heart |
| Author | John Healy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Liberties Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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