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From the outside, drinking may seem like willful self-destruction – for the alcoholic, it is as inevitable as the next breath. For some artists, from Raymond Carver to Billie Holiday and David Foster Wallace to Amy Winehouse, it even appeared to be a source of inspiration. Leslie Jamison drank to hide her flaws and to be special at any cost. But then the extent of her self-destruction became so great that she had to seek help. She realized that she would only heal when she no longer insisted on her originality. Leslie Jamison compellingly recounts her addiction and the difficult path to recovery. She explores how breaking free from alcohol means radically questioning and changing one's view of the world and oneself. Clarity is a personal and collective story of drinking and sober living – wise, movingly sincere, and unexpectedly beautiful.
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The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
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- 2018
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- Title
- The Recovering
- Subtitle
- Intoxication and Its Aftermath
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Leslie Jamison
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Released
- 2018
- ISBN10
- 0316259616
- ISBN13
- 9780316259613
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- 4.7 out of 5
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- From the outside, drinking may seem like willful self-destruction – for the alcoholic, it is as inevitable as the next breath. For some artists, from Raymond Carver to Billie Holiday and David Foster Wallace to Amy Winehouse, it even appeared to be a source of inspiration. Leslie Jamison drank to hide her flaws and to be special at any cost. But then the extent of her self-destruction became so great that she had to seek help. She realized that she would only heal when she no longer insisted on her originality. Leslie Jamison compellingly recounts her addiction and the difficult path to recovery. She explores how breaking free from alcohol means radically questioning and changing one's view of the world and oneself. Clarity is a personal and collective story of drinking and sober living – wise, movingly sincere, and unexpectedly beautiful.