With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction--both her own and others'--and examines what we want these stories to do, and what happens when they fail us. --
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ISBN:0316259616
ISBN:9780316259613
Physical Description:534 pages
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Little, Brown and Company,2018.