{"product_id":"the-recovering-intoxication-and-its-aftermath","title":"The Recovering : Intoxication and its Aftermath","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAddiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYet in \u003cem\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/em\u003e, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/em\u003e is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leslie Jamison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44359782007041,"sku":"9781783781539","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-557.png?v=1705496469","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-recovering-intoxication-and-its-aftermath","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}