Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Nic Sheff

mag 2009 · Venduto da Simon and Schuster

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The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop 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 a voice 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 for us 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.

Valutazioni e recensioni

Nic's story is a pure example of how drug, mental disease and fear can suck life out a person's heart. He may look weak, a drug addict looking for a quick resolution to life's problem, some of them He created himself, but, if you look hard enough, you can see the light he brings within himself with his words, his personality, his fears, his dispear. I guess we're always looking for a meaning, a reason, a way to face life. I guess we're all looking for ourselves in the sea of life, it's a race we started breathing the for time and it will end the last time we breathe. Nic sufferance chose the way for him, a straight way to Hell, running without breathing though the highway of addiction, but I think he was very lucky becuase he dind't have to face the world alone, he had family, he had love. He just had to look hard enough to see it. This book in awsome, good, good writing. Good, good heart.

Informazioni sull'autore

Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.