Addicted : notes from the belly of the beast
Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, it can have devastating consequences - yet it can also be a source of inspiration. In this updated edition featuring three new essays on addiction to marijuana, video games, and sex, leading American and Canadian writers explore their surprisingly diverse personal experiences with this complex phenomenon and reveal in candid, graphic, powerful prose what happens when their compulsions took over their lives.
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- ISBN: 9781771641869
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Physical Description
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xii, 287 pages ; 22 cm - Edition [Third edition].
- Publisher Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books, [2016]
- Copyright ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Featuring new essays and a revised introduction." "Editing by Barbara Pulling (first edition and third edition)"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Counting the bones / Patrick Lane -- My father, myself / Marnie Woodrow -- Grand thefts / Tom Bissell -- Junkie grows up / Molly Jong-Fast -- An open letter to Laura / Lois Simmie -- How to quit smoking in fifty years or less / Peter Gzowski -- More and more / Evelyn Lau -- Breathing under ice / Lorna Crozier -- The edge of doom / Susan Cheever -- Lost in a cosmic smoke show / Elianna Leva -- Drinking / David Adams Richards -- Blackout / Sheri-D Wilson -- Molested child, so-called sexual savage / LesLIE -- Not swimming, but drowning / John Newlove -- Mone more last chance / Rick Whitaker -- Junkie / Stephen Reid. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |