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S'està carregant… Dry: A Memoir (2003)de Augusten Burroughs
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I didn't like this as much as Running with Scissors but again very funny. (  ) baruthcook | Aug 26, 2020 |  Not sure how a memoir could be both intoxicating and sobering at the same time, but Burroughs manages to pull it off with Dry. It's less psychedelically implausible and more realistic than Running with Scissors, but it is just as hysterical and touching. Burroughs knows how to write a sentence and tell a tale. It would be easy for him to glamorize his alcoholism, or turn this into a self-pitying confessional. Instead, he is able to detach his authorial perspective from the rest of himself and write about his struggles with sobriety, relationships, and reality with withering insight. (  ) ChristopherSwann | May 15, 2020 | Ever since I read Infinite Jest I have been more open to fictional accounts of recovery and AA's program. The Patrick Melrose novels, listening to Marc Maron, even watching the TV show Mom. One aspect I admire in these tellings, and used to good effect here in Dry, is when the main character admits the silliness and banality of all the sayings and practices of recovery as promoted by AA, and yet every time eventually has to admit that the simple act of repetition seems to offer some type of magic that works. Burroughs includes all the great hallmarks of the "addict story," including the epic binge and regret cycle, past history non-helpful inertia and pain, incredulous surprise at recovery's occasional successes, and constant day-to-day (sometimes minute-to-minute) battle with the self. Burroughs' well-written style is very engaging and hard to put down. ( ) 23Goatboy23 | Jan 17, 2020 | Oh yuck. What can I say about a hack named Chris Robinson who changed his name to Augusten Xon Burroughs? Cheekiness isn't enough for me. (  ) Adammmmm | Sep 10, 2019 | Augusta Burroughs, a Manhattan advertising employee, recounts his years of hard drinking and his battle to overcome alcoholism. JRCornell | Dec 8, 2018 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of flourescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power."--BOOK JACKET. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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