Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: David Sheff ,
Anthony Heald
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks
Dimensions:
Width: 17.10cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 15.80cm
Weight: 0.313kg
ISBN: 9781433204661
ISBN 10: 1433204665
Publication Date: 01 February 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Those of us who love an addict--or are addicts ourselves--will find Beautiful Boy a revelation. David Sheff knows all too well what must be endured with faith, and his extraordinary book describes it better than anything else I've read. While painfully candid, Beautiful Boy is equally optimistic and powerful. -- Martin Sheen, actor [A] powerful and sorrowful story...[Heald's] narration is exciting and engaging. -- AudioFile Sheff writes with amazing candor...Anthony Heald narrates, poignantly capturing Sheff's highs and lows. Powerful, engaging, instructive. -- BookPage (audio review) [A] moving, heartbreaking account...Anthony Heald does an excellent job with the reading, his voice and intonation conveying the pain and discouragement Sheff must have felt over his son's condition. -- School Library Journal This is an honest, hopeful book, coming at a propitious moment in the meth epidemic. -- Publishers Weekly Sheff's intense memoir is hard to put down...A must-read for, at the least, anyone in similar straits. -- Booklist (starred review) [A] frightened, beautiful memoir. -- San Francisco Chronicle Affecting...Rich with topical research and personal revelation. -- Los Angeles Times This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts. -- Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Author Information
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. 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. Heald has also won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. He lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his family.
