Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.77 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316122548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whatever you know about addictions, NINETY DAYS will broaden your knowledge and understanding Bookreporter "That craving, once it begins, is almost impossible to reverse It's like Bruce Banner as he's turning into the Incredible Hulk. Once his muscles begin to strain against his clothes and his skin goes green, he has no choice but to let the monster spring from him and unleash its inevitable damage."This is one of the many insights into the disease of addiction that Bill Clegg reveals to his readers as he describes the arduous journey he took to achieve his first 90 days of sobriety. Any. another fast read but left me with questions Augusta Wind I read this in an afternoon after I read Clegg's first book a few days ago.While it had more analysis than the first one, I still felt like I wantedmore. I wanted to know WHY? Why was he suicidal? Why is he afraid to be alone?Why does he feel so damn entitled? (He gets out of rehab in debt and rentsa studio in Chelsea for 2500! huh?) Brooklyn or Queens are not good enoughfor him? just like he had to do crack in the ritziest hotels downtown.Lots of interesting stuff about recovery and. Don't Look Within. Always Look Without. scott c There is no question that Mr. Clegg can write. Especially for this modern age where long newspaper articles and longer books have been eclipsed by dramatic sound bites and fingertip tweets. His writing is taut and lean and relatively free of self indulgent tangents. Even in this post-rehab tale, it still takes you on the roller-coaster of addiction and through the always tenuous mindset of an addict in the early stages of recovery.At the same time, I came away from this book thinking
It is because of this immediacy that Ninety Days turns out to be such an exhilarating story of ascent."Interview Magazine"Clegg has rebuilt his career as an agent and become one of the best-known faces of addiction recovery."Salon"Relationships, rather than high drama, are the real focus of Ninety Days, and as a result there is a tenderness at its heart."Vogue"Clegg's need to connect saves him.What he has now - fewer secrets, gratitude, relief, an acknowledgement of his vulnerability, time out from his dance with death - adds up, like days."San Francisco Chronicle"Clegg tells the story in plain, innocence-drenched sentences that bring to mind the wonderful Edmund White, as if to adorn the events would be dishonest."The Daily Beast"Honest and earnest."Wall Street
It is in these refuges that he befriends essential new allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the seemingly unshakably sober Asa. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.. Six weeks out of his most recent rehab, Clegg returns to New York and starts attending two or three meetings each day. At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses with only three days left. That's when the battle to reclaim his life gets reignited. The goal is ninety--just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything
. He is also the author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York