| Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction Contributor(s): Sheff, David (Author), Heald, Anthony (Read by) |
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ISBN: 143320469X ISBN-13: 9781433204692 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: Anyone who cares about an addict will find hope in Sheffs forthright, one-of-a-kind account of his struggle to overcome his sons methamphetamine habit. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Psychology | Psychopathology - Addiction - Self-help | Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drugs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.89" W x 7.53" (0.21 lbs) 1 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son's drug addiction. David's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view--a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs--denial, 3 a.m. phone calls--the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heald, Anthony: - Anthony Heald, an Audie Award-winning narrator, has earned Tony nominations and an Obie Award for his theater work; appeared in television's Law & Order, The X-Files, Miami Vice, and Boston Public; and starred as Dr. Frederick Chilton in the 1991 Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs. He lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his family. Sheff, David: -David Sheff's work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Fortune. As a contributing editor to Playboy, he has interviewed John Lennon, the founders of Google, Gore Vidal, and others. |