Never Enough
A Way Through Addiction
$14.77
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2018
Summary
‘This book could save your life’ John Crace
‘An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring’ John Niven ‘A rich, uplifting memoir: Hoskyns portrays how painful inadequacy, masked by drugs, can be replaced by the messiness of ordinary life’ Oliver JamesA few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and a…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472125552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147212555X |
| Author: | Barney Hoskyns |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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The music critic’s journey is filled with the beautiful as much as the damned … replete with insight into the price of cool and the infatuations that can tear us all apart– New Statesman
Elegantly written, almost poetic at times, his (Hoskyns) book analyses the cause and effect of addiction and its vice-like grip on the body and mind - The Mail on Sunday
The music critic’s journey is filled with the beautiful as much as the damned … replete with insight into the price of cool and the infatuations that can tear us all apart - New StatesmanA powerful … recollection of these lost years: vivid, impressionistic … an ambitious, intelligent bookA completely compelling memoir of addiction and redemption. Hoskyns has taken a highly personal subject and created a bold and rewarding account in which we may all find purpose and valueA brilliantly-written memoir about the long route to freedom - a treatise on living and dying in an addictive and compulsive cultureNever Enough, the fierce, unflinching memoir of addiction and recovery by Barney Hoskyns, is really somethingHoskyns’s artful, intense Never Enough describes his all-consuming heroin addiction at NME, as well as his subsequent 30-year flight from itAbout The Author
Barney Hoskyns
Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of online rock-journalism library Rock’s Backpages , and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005) and Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits (2009). A former US correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns writes for Uncut and other UK publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone and GQ.
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