Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Author:   Nic Sheff ,  Paul Michael Garcia
Publisher:   Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN:  

9781433209345


Publication Date:   01 January 2008
Recommended Age:   From 15 to 17 years
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he regularly smoked pot, did cocaine and ecstasy, and developed addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In writing that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait, but not one without hope.

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Author:   Nic Sheff ,  Paul Michael Garcia
Publisher:   Blackstone Audiobooks
Imprint:   Blackstone Audiobooks
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781433209345


ISBN 10:   1433209349
Publication Date:   01 January 2008
Recommended Age:   From 15 to 17 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Nic Sheff's powerful memoir of drug abuse and alcohol addiction is written in a brutally honest style that makes it difficult for anyone else to narrate. Happily, narrator Paul Michael Garcia delivers a strong and commanding reading that perfectly expresses the rawness of Sheff's most personal recollections...Endlessly memorable, Sheff's memoir is brought to life in a reading that captures the essence of his downfall. -- AudioFile Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were. -- Publishers Weekly Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight. -- Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives Impossible to put down -- Chicago Tribune


Impossible to put down -- Chicago Tribune Nic Sheff's powerful memoir of drug abuse and alcohol addiction is written in a brutally honest style that makes it difficult for anyone else to narrate. Happily, narrator Paul Michael Garcia delivers a strong and commanding reading that perfectly expresses the rawness of Sheff's most personal recollections...Endlessly memorable, Sheff's memoir is brought to life in a reading that captures the essence of his downfall. -- AudioFile Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight. -- Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were. -- Publishers Weekly


Author Information

Nic Sheff is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Still in his twenties, he continues to fight daily battles with his addictions. His writing has been published in Newsweek, Nerve, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Paul Michael Garcia, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and former company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer.

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