Model Citizen: A Memoir

Mohr, Joshua

ISBN 10: 0374211728 / ISBN 13: 9780374211721

Verlag: MCD, 2021

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0374211728I4N10

Inhaltsangabe:

The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr―writer, father, alcoholic, addict

Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar . . . I hold it over my head, hole down, shaking it back and forth, the pick rattling around in there. And as it ricochets from side to side, I always think about pills. Maybe the pick has turned into oxy. Or Norco, codeine, Demerol. Maybe it’s a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up.

After years of hard-won sobriety, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter, thirty-five-year-old Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke―his third, it turns out― which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. Which requires fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work?

Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life, throwing the wild joys, tragedies, embarrassments, and adventures of his past into bold relief.

Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Joshua Mohr is the author of the memoir Sirens and of several novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called beat-poet cool. His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Model Citizen: A Memoir
Verlag: MCD
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket