Long Past Stopping: A Memoir - Softcover

Canfield, Oran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061450766 ISBN 13: 9780061450761

Verlag: William Morrow & Company, 2011

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Book by Canfield Oran

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"Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you'd be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told."--Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself

"Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious... [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary...[makes] you laugh out loud."--Associated Press

"An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction."--Booklist

"The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes... The author's deadpan irony is...brilliant..."--Kirkus Reviews

Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you d be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told. --Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself"

Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary [makes] you laugh out loud. --Associated Press"

An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction. --Booklist"

The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes The author s deadpan irony is brilliant --Kirkus Reviews"

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Oran Canfield—son of self-help guru andChicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield—tells his surreal story of growing up inLong Past Stopping. In this remarkable memoir, writing with a wry and cutting edge, Canfield relates tales of a childhood in flux—being buffeted about among family friends, relatives, rebels, and born-again circus clowns, in an anarchist private school, communes, and libertarian enclaves—and of a young adulthood spent among the ruins of heroin addiction.Long Past Stopping is Oran Canfield’s often hilariously harrowing tale of surviving life in the strange lane.

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• Verlag: William Morrow & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061450766
• ISBN 13: 9780061450761
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336