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Advancing from the Ventral Striatum to the Extended Amygdala: Implications for Neuropsychiatry and Drug Abuse In Honor of Lennart Heimerby Jacqueline F. McGintyISBN 1573311790 (1-57331-179-0)
Softcover, New York Academy of Sciences
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After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropologyby Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Andrew Dawson, Allison James, Jennifer Lorna HockeyISBN 041515006X (0-415-15006-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology'Book summary:This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.
It includes discussion of issues such as:
* the concept of caste in Indian society
* scottish ethnography
* how dreams are culturally conceptualised
* representations of the family
* culture as conservation
* gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan
* representation in rural Japan
* people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia
* representing identity of the New Zealand Maori. [via]More editions of After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology:
AIDS and IV Drug Abusers: Current Perspectivesby Robert Galea, Benjamin Lewis, Lori BakerISBN 0932500714 (0-932500-71-4)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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And I Don't Want to Live This Lifeby Deborah SpungenISBN 0449911411 (0-449-91141-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And I Don't Want to Live This Life'Book summary:For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control--who almost destroyed her parents' marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.
"Honest and moving...Her painful tale is engrossing."
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The Bitch Posseby Martha O'ConnorISBN 0312333935 (0-312-33393-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Cocaine And Heroin Abuse Researchby Lidia A. PizzoliISBN 1600210767 (1-60021-076-7)
Hardcover, Nova Science Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cocaine And Heroin Abuse Research'Book summary:Addiction does begin with drug abuse when an individual makes a conscious choice to use drugs, but addiction is not just "a lot of drug use". Recent scientific research provides overwhelming evidence that not only do drugs interfere with normal brain functioning creating powerful feelings of pleasure, but they also have long-term effects on brain metabolism and activity. At some point, changes occur in the brain that can turn drug abuse into addiction, a chronic, relapsing illness. Those addicted to drugs suffer from a compulsive drug craving and usage and cannot quit by themselves. Treatment is necessary to end this compulsive behaviour. This book includes within its scope leading-edge research on cocaine and heroin abuse. [via]
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Communities That Care: Action for Drug Abuse Preventionby J. David Hawkins, Richard F. CatalanoISBN 1555424716 (1-55542-471-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Crankby Ellen HopkinsISBN 0689865198 (0-689-86519-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dancing on Drugs: Risk, Health and Hedonism in the British Club Scenesby Howard Parker, Judith Aldridge, Fiona MeashamISBN 1853435120 (1-85343-512-0)
Softcover, Free Assn Books
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The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Childrenby William BennettISBN 1561792241 (1-56179-224-1)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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The De-Valuing of America the Fight for Our Culture and Our Children: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Childrenby William J. BennettISBN 1561793604 (1-56179-360-4)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hillsby David Milch, David SamuelsISBN 1596912391 (1-59691-239-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Declaration of the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking/ E.88Xi1by Intl Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit TraffickingISBN 9211480752 (92-1-148075-2)
Softcover, Renouf Pub Co Ltd
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Drug Abuse: Origins and Interventionsby Meyer D. Glantz, Christine R. HartelISBN 1557986010 (1-55798-601-0)
Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn
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Drug Abuse Treatment Through Collaboration: Practice and Research Partnerships That Workby Richard A. Rawson, Joan E. Zweben, James L. Sorensen, Joseph GuydishISBN 1557989850 (1-55798-985-0)
Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drug Abuse Treatment Through Collaboration: Practice and Research Partnerships That Work'Book summary:In Drug Abuse Treatment Through Collaboration, James L. Sorensen and co-editors Richard A. Rawson, Joseph Guydish, and Joan E. Zweben begin to narrow the divide that exists between research and clinical practice. Bringing insights from their experience on both sides of the divide, they describe how the problem is partly a failure of communication. In the practitioner's view, research seems disconnected from clinical needs, and researchers may not be asking meaningful questions about treatment. From the researcher's view, treatment professionals may not seem open to new ideas, and the diffusion of knowledge to the field seems too slow. As a result, despite a boom in scientific findings related to neuroscience, pharmacology, health services delivery, and other related disciplines, there has been little more than a ripple in the clinical treatment of addiction. This pioneering book promotes (and exemplifies) collaboration between research and practice in the substance abuse field. A multidisciplinary group of scientists and practitioners probe such topics as what field-developed treatments have attracted research attention, what research-developed treatments have been readily adopted into the field, and what is needed to bring researchers and practitioners into accord. It illustrates how, working together, researchers and practitioners can identify and further develop promising scientific protocols, employ the most rigorous standards to test them, and put into practice those treatments which prove to be most effective. [via]
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Drug Abuse/Scientific Publication 522ISBN 9275115222 (92-75-11522-2)
Softcover, Pan Amer Health Org
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Drugs and Sports: Locating the Authors Main Ideaby Carol O'SullivanISBN 0899084958 (0-89908-495-8)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr
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Drugs For Relapse Prevention Of Alcoholismby K. Mann, R. SPANAGEL, K.F. MannISBN 3764302143 (3-7643-0214-3)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Dry: A Memoirby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312423799 (0-312-42379-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dry: A Memoir'Book summary:Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, we find that although adult Augusten is doing well professionally, earning a handsome living as an ad writer for a top New York agency, Burroughs's personal life is a disaster. His apartment is a sea of empty Dewar's bottles, he stays out all night boozing, and he dabs cologne on his tongue in an unsuccessful attempt to mask the stench of alcohol on his breath at work. When his employer insists he seek help, Burroughs ships out to Minnesota for detoxification, counseling, and amusingly told anecdotes about the use of stuffed animals in group therapy. But after a month of such treatment, he's back in Manhattan and tenuously sober. And while its one thing to lay off the sauce in rehab, Burroughs learns that it's quite another to resume your former life while avoiding the alcohol that your former life was based around. This quest to remain sober is made dramatically more difficult, and the tale more harrowing, when Burroughs begins an ill-advised romance with a crack addict. Certainly the "recovered alcoholic fighting to stay sober" tale is not new territory for a memoirist. But Burroughs's account transcends clichés: it doesn't adhere to the traditional "temptation narrowly resisted" storyline and it features, in Burroughs himself, a central character that is sympathetic even when he's neither likable nor admirable. But what ultimately makes this memoir such a terrific read is a brilliant and candid sense of humor that manages to stay dry even when recalling events where the author was anything but. --John Moe [via]
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El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420666858 (84-206-6685-8)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet. [via]
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Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madnessby Charles BukowskiISBN 0872860612 (0-87286-061-2)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse : Perspectives on Current Researchby Joseph E. Trimble, Catherine S. Bolek, Steve J. NiemcrykISBN 1560230231 (1-56023-023-1)
Hardcover, Haworth Press, Incorporated, The
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Fat Kid Rules the Worldby K. L. GoingISBN 0142402087 (0-14-240208-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Kid Rules the World'Book summary:[via]Troy Billings at 6'1", 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform seriously contemplating suicide when he meets Curt MacCrae -a sage-like, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a drop-out legend at Troy's school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
"I saved your life. You owe me lunch," Curt tells Troy, and Troy can't imagine refusing; after all, think of the headline: FAT KID ARGUES WITH PIECE OF TWINE.
But with Curt, Troy gets more than he bargained for and soon finds himself recruited as Curt's drummer. "We'll be called Rage/Tectonic. Sort of a punk rock, Clash sort of thing," Curt informs him.
There's only one problem. Troy can't play the drums. Oh yes, and his father thinks Curt's a drug addict. And his brother thinks Troy's a loser. But with Curt, anything is possible. "You'll see," says Curt. "We're going to be HUGE."
In an outstanding, funny, edgy debut, K. L. Going presents two unlikely friends who ultimately save each other.
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoirby Janice ErlbaumISBN 1400064228 (1-4000-6422-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir'Book summary:Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my moms in Brooklyn, thinking Id eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nuns mustache and wondering where I was going to spend the rest of my adolescence.
At fifteen, sick of her moms spineless reactions to abusive menand afraid of her stepfathers unpredictable behaviorJanice Erlbaum walked out of her familys apartment and never returned. What followed that fateful decision is the heart of this amazing, fascinating, and disturbing memoir.
From her first frightening night at a shelter, trying to sleep in a large room filled with yelling girls, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it was still better than living at home. Just like that, she was halfway homeless, always one step away from being sent upstate to Lockdown.
As Janice slipped further into street life, she nevertheless continued to attend high school, harbor crushes, even play the lead in the spring production of Guys and Dolls. She also roamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City with her two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys on skateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angel dust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers, and slept with one anothers boyfriends on a regular basis.
Janice Erlbaum paints a wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, and underdressed in the 1980s, bouncing from shelters to group homes, from tenement squats to legendary nightclubs. A moving and tremendously entertaining ride through the seediest parts of New York City, Girlbomb provides an unflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friendships, and first loves. [via]More editions of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir:
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Go Ask Aliceby AnonymousISBN 1416914633 (1-4169-1463-3)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Ask Alice'Book summary:The torture and hell of adolescence has rarely been captured as clearly as it is in this classic diary by an anonymous, addicted teen. Lonely, awkward, and under extreme pressure from her "perfect" parents, "Anonymous" swings madly between optimism and despair. When one of her new friends spikes her drink with LSD, this diarist begins a frightening journey into darkness. The drugs take the edge off her loneliness and self-hate, but they also turn her life into a nightmare of exalting highs and excruciating lows. Although there is still some question as to whether this diary is real or fictional, there is no question that it has made a profound impact on millions of readers during the more than 25 years it has been in print. Despite a few dated references to hippies and some expired slang, Go Ask Alice still offers a jolting chronicle of a teenager's life spinning out of control. [via]
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- Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0671664581 (0-671-66458-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0380005239 (0-380-00523-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0689817851 (0-689-81785-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0133571114 (0-13-357111-4)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 1416914633 (1-4169-1463-3)
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- Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0671664581 (0-671-66458-1)
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwichby Alice ChildressISBN 1557361126 (1-55736-112-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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House of Sand and Fogby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 1400077354 (1-4000-7735-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Sand and Fog'Book summary:Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a hot California summer day. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah, reflects on his job-search efforts since arriving in the U.S. four years before: "I have spent hundreds of dollars copying my credentials; I have worn my French suits and my Italian shoes to hand-deliver my qualifications; I have waited and then called back after the correct waiting time; but there is nothing." The father of two, Behrani has spent most of the money he brought with him from Iran on an apartment and furnishings that are too expensive, desperately trying to keep up appearances in order to enhance his daughter's chances of making a good marriage. Now the daughter is married, and on impulse he sinks his remaining funds into a house he buys at auction, thus unwittingly putting himself and his family on a trajectory to disaster. The house, it seems, once belonged to Kathy Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic who wants it back. What starts out as a legal tussle soon escalates into a personal confrontation--with dire results.
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries, Behrani and Kathy. To both of them, the house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel, it is a foot in the door of the American dream; for Kathy, a reminder of a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative, House of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully dark but unfailingly honest. --Alix Wilber [via]
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How the Light Gets inby M. J. HylandISBN 1841955485 (1-84195-548-5)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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Les Particules Elementairesby Michel HouellebecqISBN 2080674722 (2-08-067472-2)
Hardcover, Flammarion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Particules Elementaires'Book summary:L'un est un scientifique de renom, l'autre est anonyme ; l'un a choisi une solitude absolue, l'autre ne l'a pas choisie mais la subit quand même ; l'un et l'autre sont frères et n'ont rien en commun, sinon cette propension au malheur. Ou plutôt au "non-bonheur" : bonheur dont les auraient privés les débordements libertaires des années soixante-dix. Chacun de leur côté, en se traînant de fiasco en désastre, et de retraite en désert, ils vont faire de leur vie la preuve de ce désenchantement du monde et révéler enfin la clef des rapports entre les hommes : l'illusion.
Lors de sa sortie, ce livre a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, suscité de vives passions et de violents débats, alimentés par la personnalité de son auteur, volontiers provocateur et irrévérencieux. Cela ne fait qu'ajouter à la fascination que provoque la lecture de ce roman, qui remet en cause toutes nos certitudes et nous oblige à réagir. Que l'on aime ou pas le style Houellebecq, il est urgent de lire Les Particules élémentaires. --Karla Manuele [via]
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The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostituteby Sue Davidson, Ruth Rosen, Maimie Pinzer, Fanny Quincy HoweISBN 1558611436 (1-55861-143-6)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostitute'Book summary:This enchanting collection of brave letters charts a correspondence of more than 12 years between two 19th-century women. Maimie Pinzer was a former prostitute/nude model/actress who wanted to be a lady; Fanny Howe was a Bostonian lady with an understanding of tragedy. The match was unlikely from both sides, but Fanny offered moral support and a definition of what it was to be a "Gentle American," while Maimie contributed her honesty and a clearer view of "the human condition" that Fanny would otherwise not know. The letters intimately detail what life was like for a lower class working woman--and how one woman struggled to make something more of that life. [via]
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The Man With the Golden Armby Nelson AlgrenISBN 1583220089 (1-58322-008-9)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man With the Golden Arm'Book summary:The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work.
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. [via]More editions of The Man With the Golden Arm:
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Hardcover, Seven Stories Press - The Man With the Golden Arm: ISBN 0941423387 (0-941423-38-7)
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 1400031087 (1-4000-3108-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Million Little Pieces'Book summary:News from Doubleday & Anchor Books
The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesnt matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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- A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 0307276902 (0-307-27690-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc - A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 0385507755 (0-385-50775-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 060634604X (0-606-34604-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media - A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 1400031087 (1-4000-3108-7)
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Motivating Behavior Change Among Illicit-Drug Abusers: Research on Contingency Management Interventionsby Kenneth Silverman, Stephen T. HigginsISBN 1557985707 (1-55798-570-7)
Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn
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My Friend Leonardby James FreyISBN 1594481954 (1-59448-195-4)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Friend Leonard'Book summary:In the bold and heartbreaking My Friend Leonard, James Frey picks up the story of his extraordinary life pretty much where things left off in his breakout bestseller and Amazon.com Best Book of 2003, A Million Little Pieces, the fierce, in-your-face memoir about Frey's kamikaze run of self-destruction and his days in rehab. Fresh from a stint in jail from pre-rehab-related charges ("On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray."), clean-living Frey returns to Chicago and gets sucker-punched with a cruel blow that will leave readers ducking for cover in anticipation of the blinding bender that's sure to come. But then the titular Leonard, the larger-than-life Vegas mobster ("West Coast Director of a large Italian finance firm") whom James befriended in rehab, steps into the story and serves equal parts unlikely life coach, guardian angel, and father figure for the grief-stricken author, adopting him as his "son" and schooling him in the fine art of "living boldly":
Be not bold, be f-cking BOLD. Every time you meet someone, make a f-cking impression. Make them think you're the hottest shit in the world. Make them think they're gonna lose their job if they don't give you one. Look 'em in the eye, and never look away. Be confident and calm, be f-cking bold.
Hurricane Leonard storms into James's life, showering his young charge with multi-course feasts at steakhouses and Italian restaurants, courtside seats at Bulls' games, Cuban cigars, and an elaborate Super Bowl party in Los Angeles, all the while doling out wisdom on life and love and motivating James to stick to his burgeoning writing career. James even has a brief stint as an employee of Leonard's, though occupational hazards--like having a nine millimeter shoved in his face--prove too much for the novice bag man (though he does make enough to invest his earnings in a Picasso drawing). When Leonard drops out of sight for an extended period, his absence leaves readers aching to hear the familiar refrain of "My Son!" just one more time.
Frey sticks to the taut, staccato style that shot through A Million Little Pieces with such raw electricity. Surprisingly, the tone feels equally at home with this book's focus on friendship and extreme loyalty, and works to intensify the always-looming, adrenaline-rush threat of violence and the lure of the Fury that courses like a riptide throughout the book. Ultimately, it's a sense of hope, and humor even, that prevails and makes My Friend Leonard a stand-alone success. Despite his shady pedigree, you'll long to have a friend like Leonard just a phone call away. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Amazon.com's Significant Seven
James Frey graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.
Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: Tao te Ching by Lao Tsu. Completely changed how I think, behave, live my life. Nothing else comes close.
Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: The book would be the Tao te Ching, the CD would be some compilation of love songs from the 70s and 80s, and the DVD would be highlights from the history of the Cleveland Browns.
Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: No way I can answer that.
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: I've been working at the same desk since I started writing. It's old and beaten-up and black. The rest of my workroom is empty, except for some crazy sh-- on the wall in front of me: pictures of people I admire, reproductions of artwork I dig, sayings that motivate me, things like--bare your soul, be bold, page a day motherfu--er page a day. I listen to music while I work, have a pile of nicotine gum and a couple cans of diet coke. My dogs are usually a couple feet away from me. I've always worked this way, probably always will.
Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: "Loved, lost, laughed, left."
Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: Winston Churchill
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: Immortality.
Network Therapy for Alcohol and Drug Abuseby Marc GalanterISBN 1572304413 (1-57230-441-3)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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Neurobiological Mechanisms of Drugs of Abuse: Cocaine, Ibogaine, and Substituted Amphetaminesby Syed F. AliISBN 1573312800 (1-57331-280-0)
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New Medications for Drug Abuseby Stanley D. Glick, Isabelle M. MaisonneuveISBN 1573312762 (1-57331-276-2)
Softcover, New York Academy of Sciences
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New Research on Street Drugsby Spencer M. ColeISBN 1594549613 (1-59454-961-3)
Hardcover, Nova Science Pub Inc
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Parenting for Prevention: How to Raise a Child to Say No to Alcohol and Other Drugs For Parents, Teachers, and Other Concerned Adultsby David J. Wilmes, Cyril A. ReillyISBN 0935908463 (0-935908-46-3)
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Preventing and Controlling Drug Abuseby GossopISBN 9241561343 (92-4-156134-3)
Softcover, World Health Organization
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Prozac Nationby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 1573225126 (1-57322-512-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prozac Nation'Book summary:Elizabeth Wertzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era. [via]
Rachel's Holidayby Marian KeyesISBN 1853718963 (1-85371-896-3)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel's Holiday'Book summary:The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. But Rachel's love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room. It will also cost her a job and the boyfriend she adores. When her loving family hustles her back home and checks her into Ireland's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic, Rachel is hopeful. Perhaps it will be lovely-spa treatments, celebrities, that kind of thing. Instead, she finds a lot of group therapy, which leads her, against her will, to some important self-knowledge. She will also find something that all women like herself fear: a man who might actually be good for her. [via]
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Requiem for a Dreamby Hubert SelbyISBN 1560252480 (1-56025-248-0)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Requiem for a Dream'Book summary:In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital. [via]
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Rxby Tracy LynnISBN 1416911553 (1-4169-1155-3)
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Sans Moiby Marie Desplechin, Will HobsonISBN 1862072981 (1-86207-298-1)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sans Moi'Book summary:poche. broché. Que faire d'une jeune femme qui s'installe chez vous, sous prétexte qu'elle n'a pas de domicile et qu'elle s'entend bien avec vos enfants ? Son portrait, peut-être. Enfant de la DDASS, fille des rues, fourmi pour un dealer et prostituée occasionnelle, Olivia porte en elle un passé chargé et un présent hasardeux. Avec elle, c'est un peu de la violence et de la corruption du monde qui frappe à votre porte. Ingénue professionnelle, libertine à son insu, cette accidentée de la vie est pleine d'une énergie vitale qui fait craquer toutes les digues. Dans ce livre cruel à force de justesse, Marie Desplechin effleure, sans crainte de faire mal, nos zones sensibles: les faux-semblants, trahisons infimes, petits accomodements sans importance où se joue chaque jour notre survie morale. [via]
A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 1400096901 (1-4000-9690-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scanner Darkly'Book summary:Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Skylight Confessionsby Alice HoffmanISBN 1585479047 (1-58547-904-7)
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Smackby Melvin BurgessISBN 0060521872 (0-06-052187-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smack'Book summary:Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."
With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
Someone Else's Puddin'by Samuel L. HairISBN 0977624706 (0-9776247-0-6)
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Tales of Ordinary Madnessby Charles BukowskiISBN 0872861554 (0-87286-155-4)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Ordinary Madness'Book summary:[via]With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle groundpeople seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.
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Treating Alcohol and Drug Abuse: An Evidence-Based Reviewby Egon Jonsson, Mats Berglund, Sten ThelanderISBN 352730682X (3-527-30682-X)
Hardcover, Vch Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh
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Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay Americaby Frank SanelloISBN 1555838847 (1-55583-884-7)
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The Useful Lieby William L. Playfair, George BrysonISBN 0891076379 (0-89107-637-9)
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The Valley of the Dollsby Jacqueline SusannISBN 0937858021 (0-937858-02-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Vulnerability to Drug Abuseby Meyer Glantz, Roy PickensISBN 1557981426 (1-55798-142-6)
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West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, And a Journey Past Paradiseby Tara Bray SmithISBN 0743236807 (0-7432-3680-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, And a Journey Past Paradise'Book summary:At the center of West of Then is Karen Morgan -- island flower, fifth-generation haole (white) Hawaiian, Mayflower descendant -- now living on the streets of downtown Honolulu. Despite her recklessness, Karen inspires fierce loyalty and love in her three daughters. When she goes missing in the spring of 2002, Tara, the eldest, sets out to find and hopefully save her mother. Her journey is about what you give up when you try to renounce your past, whether personal, familial, or historical, and what you gain when you confront it.
By turns tough and touching, Smith's modern detective story unravels the rich history of the fiftieth state and the realities of contemporary Hawaii -- its sizable homeless population, its drug subculture -- as well as its generous, diverse humanity and astonishing beauty. In this land of so many ghosts, the author's search for her mother becomes a reckoning with herself, her family, and with the meaning of home. [via]
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White Oleanderby Janet FitchISBN 1410400816 (1-4104-0081-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Oleander'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.
As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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Wonder Boysby Michael ChabonISBN 1568952570 (1-56895-257-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonder Boys'Book summary:Michael Chabon's Grady Tripp is one messed up college writing professor - his marriage is breaking up, his girlfriend (wife of the dean) is pregnant, his marijuana habit is taking over and his editor is just about out of a job. Tripp has published a few moderately successful novels but is strangling his creativity with introspection and marijuana - never finishing a 2,000-plus-page novel called Wonder Boys. When his editor and best friend, Terry Crabtree, comes to town and spreads chaos, Tripp goes along for the ride. Farcical misadventures dominate, from a picked-up transvestite to a wild ride in a stolen car that contains a tuba and the corpses of a dog and a boa constrictor. Chabon writes with a wry, vulnerable wit that cleaves open the minds of his wonderful characters while his clean prose keeps the madcap story going so well that you'll want it to never end. [via]
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En Mil Pedazos/a Million Piecesby James FreyISBN 9707704225 (970-770-422-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En Mil Pedazos/a Million Pieces'Book summary:Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects goodness, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. A Million Little Pieces is the fight between one young mans will and the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion, the fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart.
Description in Spanish: Imagina que te despiertas en un avión. No tienes ni idea de dónde has estado ni de adónde vas. No recuerdas nada de las dos últimas semanas. Imagina que te faltan cuatro dientes, que tienes la nariz rota y una herida en la mejilla. Imagina que vas sin cartera, sin dinero, y no tienes trabajo. Imagina que te está buscando la policía. Imagina que eres alcohólico desde hace diez años y adicto al crack desde hace tres. ¿Qué harías?
A los veintitrés años, James Frey ingresó en un centro de desintoxicación. Destruido física y mentalmente de forma casi irremediable, debía enfrentarse a una difícil decisión: aceptar que no llegaría a cumplir los veinticuatro, o cambiar drásticamente el curso de su vida. Rodeado de pacientes en la misma situación entre los que había un juez, un pandillero, un boxeador que había sido campeón mundial y una frágil ex prostituta, Frey luchó contra el dogma de «Cómo recuperarse» para conseguir encontrar su propio camino, y decidir qué futuro, si le esperaba alguno, era el que quería alcanzar.
Aclamado por la crítica como todo un fenómeno literario y best seller desde los primeros días de su publicación, En mil pedazos es el testimonio inusualmente sincero de un hombre cuyo furioso impulso de autodestrucción sólo es comparable a su inagotable deseo de sobrevivir. [via]
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Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibicionesby Charles BukowskiISBN 8433914553 (84-339-1455-3)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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El Guardian Entre el Centenoby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420634093 (84-206-3409-3)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial, S. A.
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El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420616893 (84-206-1689-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Les Particules Elementairesby Michel HouellebecqISBN 2290351717 (2-290-35171-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Particules Elementaires'Book summary:L'un est un scientifique de renom, l'autre est anonyme ; l'un a choisi une solitude absolue, l'autre ne l'a pas choisie mais la subit quand même ; l'un et l'autre sont frères et n'ont rien en commun, sinon cette propension au malheur. Ou plutôt au "non-bonheur" : bonheur dont les auraient privés les débordements libertaires des années soixante-dix. Chacun de leur côté, en se traînant de fiasco en désastre, et de retraite en désert, ils vont faire de leur vie la preuve de ce désenchantement du monde et révéler enfin la clef des rapports entre les hommes : l'illusion.
Lors de sa sortie, ce livre a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, suscité de vives passions et de violents débats, alimentés par la personnalité de son auteur, volontiers provocateur et irrévérencieux. Cela ne fait qu'ajouter à la fascination que provoque la lecture de ce roman, qui remet en cause toutes nos certitudes et nous oblige à réagir. Que l'on aime ou pas le style Houellebecq, il est urgent de lire Les Particules élémentaires. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Las Partículas Elementalesby Michel Houellebecq, Encarna CastejónISBN 8433967304 (84-339-6730-4)
Softcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Partículas Elementales'Book summary:Una vision feroz y sarcastica del presente a traves de dos hermanastros cuarentones, Michel, un investigador en biologia que vive como un monje, ha renunciado al sexo y solo pasea para ir al supermercado, y Bruno, profesor de literatura, consumidor de pornografia, misogino, racista y virtuoso del resentimiento. Una novela demoledora sobre una generacion derrotada de la mano del mas contundente escritor frances vivo. / This is a fierce and satirical look at the present day through the eyes of two stepbrothers in their forties. Michel is a biology researcher who lives like a monk, having renounced sex, and spends most of his spare time browsing the supermarket. Bruno is a literature professor, mass porn consumer, misogynist, racist and expert in resentment. This is a devastating novel about a defeated generation, by Frances most shrewd writer. [via]
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Principes De Maineby John IrvingISBN 8472239373 (84-7223-937-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Rachel se va de viaje / Rachel's Holidayby Marian KeyesISBN 840132954X (84-01-32954-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Laurier Blancby Janet FitchISBN 2253152897 (2-253-15289-7)
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L'Oeuvre De Dieu, LA Part Du Diableby John IrvingISBN 2020257807 (2-02-025780-7)
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Les Particules Elementairesby Michel HouellebecqISBN 2290303054 (2-290-30305-4)
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Lors de sa sortie, ce livre a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, suscité de vives passions et de violents débats, alimentés par la personnalité de son auteur, volontiers provocateur et irrévérencieux. Cela ne fait qu'ajouter à la fascination que provoque la lecture de ce roman, qui remet en cause toutes nos certitudes et nous oblige à réagir. Que l'on aime ou pas le style Houellebecq, il est urgent de lire Les Particules élémentaires. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Gottes Werk Und Teufels Beitragby John IrvingISBN 3257218370 (3-257-21837-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Il Giovane Holdenby J. D. SalingerISBN 8806163698 (88-06-16369-8)
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Nordkraft: Romanby Jakob EjersboISBN 8702012111 (87-02-01211-1)
Hardcover, Gyldendal
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