| Permanent Midnight: A Memoir Contributor(s): Stahl, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0976082209 ISBN-13: 9780976082200 Publisher: Process OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of a former television writer who lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts, and descends into a quasi-functional heroin addiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Self-help | Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drugs - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.15 lbs) 380 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives."--Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn " Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso."--Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker "Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and a ghastly, riotous humor."--Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life "Permanent Midnight is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was."--Booklist A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs. Jerry Stahl was born in Pittsburgh. He is author of the novels Perv: A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked and I, Fatty, the paperback edition of which will appear in 2005. He currently lives in Los Angeles. |