{"product_id":"white-out-the-secret-life-of-heroin-1","title":"White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWhite Out: The Secret Life of Heroin\u003c\/h1\u003eMichael W Clune,Michael W Clune\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003eMarch 21 2023\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781946022608\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1946022608\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If you've ever wanted to know what an exceptional critical mind looks like on drugs, read White Out . . . A hilarious and scandalous and frightening chronicle of full-blown heroin addiction (and graduate school!) . . . The best book about drugs since [Baudelaire's] \u003ci\u003eLes Paradis Artificiels\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Ben Lerner, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe tenth-anniversary edition of Michael Clune's classic memoir of addiction and recovery, with a new preface by the author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a \"white out,\" so that every time you use it is the first time--new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune's story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls \"the memory disease.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune's account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life--between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature--we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. \u003ci\u003eWhite Out \u003c\/i\u003eis more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390644846637,"sku":"WHS-f1026c62c8e34be980ccc3521eec5a1a","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_0c70db48-15bd-44a3-ba6d-093c5bb096f8.jpg?v=1787345691","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/white-out-the-secret-life-of-heroin-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}