E-audiobook
A million little pieces [electronic resource] / James Frey.
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy energy of Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky. A million little pieces is the story of the fight between one young man's will and the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion, and the fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598872378 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1598872370 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge Co., 2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Abridged. Duration: 10:06:55. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Oliver Wyman. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 145378 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Frey, James, 1969- Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > Minnesota. Drug addicts > Minnesota > Biography. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
A searing memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and the rehabilitation experience offers a provocative look at addiction and recovery through the eyes of a man who had taken his addictions to deadly extremes, describing the torments of withdrawal and detoxification, the desperate urge to use chemicals, and the battle to confront the consequences of his life and redefine his future. - EBSCOhost
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky.By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may becomeâwhich he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.An uncommon accounting of a life destroyed and reconstructed, and a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery, A Million Little Pieces marks the debut of a bold and talented literary voice. - Findaway World Llc
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky.
By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.
James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may becomeâwhich he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.
