Slippery Steps: Rolling & Tumbling Toward Sobriety - Softcover

McLeese, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948509350 ISBN 13: 9781948509350

Verlag: Ice Cube Pr Llc, 2022

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Slippery Steps isn’t your typical, hell-and-back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I’d spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I was a loving husband and father. My life worked and worked well. Until it didn’t. Freedom from drinking has enriched my life in ways I’d never imagined. I’d been numbing myself to sleep, and sleepwalking my way through life. It’s never too late to wake up. This is a book about how the worst day of my life turned out to be one of the best.

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Before joining the journalism faculty of the University of Iowa, Don McLeese was an award-winning music journalist. He was a popular music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Austin American-Statesman, senior editor at No Depression, and a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine. His work has also appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Oxford American, and Entertainment Weekly. He has written three previous books, including Dwight Yoakam, and A Thousand Miles from Nowhere.

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“How can an alcoholic possibly have no sense that he is an alcoholic? In Slippery Steps, a brave, precise, unflinching, and valuable memoir, Don McLeese shows how alcoholism can insinuate itself into a life that, all things considered, seems pretty good. Spoiler alert: McLeese finds AA, and his book gives the best account I’ve read of how that organization can support someone on the road to recovery.” —Ben Yagoda, author, Memoir: A History “The honesty and lightness of touch are remarkable. It made me look at the large Canadian whisky I’d poured with huge suspicion. I have been around functioning alcoholics my whole career and it’s very hard in our trade to ditch it altogether, so this is telling stuff, pointed and very close to home.” —Jon Langford, (Mekons, Waco Brothers, et al.) “I’ve often wondered, Where is the irreplaceable memoir on alcoholism and nothing but alcoholism? Slippery Steps may well be it. Brutal, brilliant honesty.” —David Shields, author, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ice Cube Pr Llc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1948509350
• ISBN 13: 9781948509350
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 337
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