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Beautiful Boy - David Sheff New Hardcover Book drug addiction
BEAUTIFUL BOY
A father's journey through his son's addiction
To see more biographies including Tweak by David's son Nic, and Go Ask Alice, please click here
New hardcover book with dustjacket, 326 pages,
published 2008. 1st Edition.
David Sheff'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 stole money
from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets.
At its heart Beautiful
Boy is an amazingly honest and exquisitely written account of a family's
torturous journey through addiction. It raises questions that reflect the fears
of every parent: Where does one's responsibility to a loved one end? How - and
when - should a parent know whether his or her child is substance abusing? And
how does a family recover from the wounds afflicted by addiction and get on with
their lives? David Sheff has written a powerful and moving family portrait that
will resonate soundly with all readers and is sure to become a classic.
David's son, Nic Sheff, tells his story in Tweak (growing up on methamphetamines) - click here to purchase
About the author
DAVID SHEFF's work has appeared in the
New York Times, Outside, Rolling Stone, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His piece
for the New York Times Magazine, "My Addicted Son", generated several
hundred letters from readers and won an award from the American Psychological
Association for "Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of
Addiction".
Sheff
has been an editor of New West and
California magazines and was a founding editor of Men's Life and Yahoo Internet
Life. He graduated from the
University of
California,
Berkeley. Sheff lives in
Northern California with his wife, Karen Barbour, an artist, illustrator, and
author of children's books. He has three children, Nic, Jasper, and Daisy
Sheff.
BEAUTIFUL BOY - DAVID SHEFF
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