The Recovering

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction both her own and others and examines what we want these stories to do, and what happens when they fail us.All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Raymond Carver, Billie Holiday, David Foster Wallace, and Denis Johnson, as well as brilliant figures lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here.For the power of her striking language and the sharpness of her piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag Yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come. Free Download The Recovering [ author ] Leslie Jamison [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This was an interesting book, and one I enjoyed It is a memoir of the author s addiction and coming to sobriety alongside a cultural history of writers and addiction The breath of Jamison s knowledge on this subject is impressive if, at times, overwhelming She lovingly details several writers famous for their drinking, and the creative work that rose from that drinking or was stymied She also looks at some of the sociopolitical implications of addiction, and there are some interesting ways i This was an interesting book, and one I enjoyed It is a memoir of the author s addiction and coming to sobriety alongside a cultural history of writers and addiction The breath of Jamison s knowledge on this subject is impressive if, at times, overwhelming She lovingly details several writers famous for their drinking, and the creative work that rose from that drinking or was stymied She also looks at some of the sociopolitical implications of addiction, and there are some interesting ways in which she identifies her subject position privilege and recognizes that her privilege allows her to have an addiction story that people with less privilege would never be granted My skin is the right color to permit my intoxication, she writes And it s good that she does this because she writes about attending the Iowa Writers Workshop and Yale and traveling the world and a fully funded education and...Audiobook.read by the author Leslie Jamison I liked Leslie s voice I m guessing the physical book would be useful to own for some readers First off I m not an alcoholic I don t even drink But maybe if I did I d look as gorgeous as author Leslie Jaminson Can I just say she is stunningly beautiful.Geee GORGEOUS Harvard GradPhd from Yale, writer, graduate from the Iowa s writing workshop and oh yeah in her spare time..alcoholic with a history of an eat Audiobook.read by the author Leslie Jamison I liked Leslie s voice I m guessing the physical book would be useful to own for some readers First off I m...4.5 stars This is such an important book and one that meant a lot to me for various reasons I appreciate Jamison s candidness she s very, very open in this book which can be difficult to read But it s an admirable and accomplished analysis of addiction It s so muchthan a memoir She looks at other people ...3.5 starsLet me start by sharing that I consider Leslie Jamison a brilliant, brilliant writer The Recovering is an intelligent, thorough book about addiction that includes cultural history, literary criticism, journalistic reportage, and memoir Jamison asks thought provoking questions and explores complex topics with a fresh, sharp eye for nuance, such as whether our stories need to be unique for them to matter, the extent we all go to fill our lives with some meaning or comfort, and the role 3.5 starsLet me start by sharing that I consider Leslie Jamison a brilliant, brilliant writer The Recovering is an intelligent, thorough book about addiction that includes cultural history, literary criticism, journalistic reportage, and memoir Jamison asks thought provoking questions and explores complex topics with a fresh, sharp eye for nuance, such as whether our stories need to be unique for them to matter, the extent we all go to fill our lives with some meaning or comfort, and the role of addiction in creative people s artistic process She integrates her intellectual insight with an empathy and kindness so important for someone writing about addiction I also appreciated how she acknowledged her privilege, recognizing that as a white woman, she has a platform to share her journey and the color of her skin will protect her from a lot of judgement, whereas...When Leslie Jamison was nine and her father was forty nine, she asked him why people drank That day he told her that drinking was dangerous It wasn t dangerous for everyone, he said, but it was dangerous for us Two close relatives were alcoholics his father and his sister, Phyllis and, as Jamison later points out, genetics do contribute to alcoholism Her father was right to warn her It s too bad she didn t heed his words.As a child, Jamison was shy, self conscious, and perpetually worrie When Leslie Jamison was nine and her father was forty nine, she asked him why people drank That day he told her that drinking was dangerous It wasn t dangerous for everyone, he said, but it was dangerous for us Two close relatives were alcoholics his father and his sister, Phyllis and, as Jamison later points out, genetics do contribute to alcoholism Her father was right to warn her It s too bad she didn t heed his words.As a child, Jamison was shy, self conscious, and perpetually worried about saying the wrong thing, but she earned praise for her cleverness Though her parents divorced when she wa... whatever beauty comes from pain can t usually be traded back for happiness. leslie jamison s new book, the recovering intoxication and its aftermath, straddles several genres at once, coalescing to form a candid, incisive, empathetic, and magnificently composed work about addiction and recovery with her own personal tale of alcoholism, relapse, and ultimate recovery as narrative anchor, jamison explores the lives of fellow writers for whom addiction was a constant battle carver, berryman, rh whatever beauty comes from pain can t usually be traded back for happiness. leslie jamison s new book, the recovering intoxication and its aftermath, straddles several genres at once, coalescing to form a candid, incisive, empathetic, and magnificently composed work about ad...This here is 500 pages of the incredible Leslie Jamison reinventing the recovery memoir I have the unbelievably luxurious privilege of not being an addict, never really having even brushed up against addiction, so I can t fully account for how deeply moving I find recovery stories But I do, I do, I am so incredibly in awe of them their urgency, their base devastation, the way the cut through all the clutter to thrum around one single need. that is stronger than anything, and then someh This here is 500 pages of the incredible Leslie Jamison reinventing the recovery memoir I have the unbelievably luxurious privilege of not being an addict, never really having even brushed up against addiction, so I can t fully account for how deeply moving I find recovery stories But I do, ...I m a recovering addict who was looking forward to this book, but found it infuriating, exploitative,narcissistic, and bougie While Jamison s writing is lyrical, descriptive, and beautiful her story lacks credibility She insists that she wants to write a different kind of recovery story and has the audacity to compare her life to real addicts like Billie Holiday and Charles Jackson Jamison amplifies normal college binge drinking experiences for dramatic purposes She carefully catalogues her I m a recovering addict who was looking forward to this book, but found it infuriating, exploitative,narcissistic, and bougie While Jamison s writing is lyrical, descriptive, and beautiful her story lacks credibility She insists that she wants to write a different kind of recovery story and has the audacity to compare her life to real addicts like Billie Holiday and Charles Jackson Jamison amplifies normal college binge drinking experiences for dramatic purposes She carefully catalogues her fancy drinking and cheese trays in Italy and Chile and at Yale, Harvard, Iowa She makes her typical college girl drinkingdramatic to try to relate to drunken heroes Jamison writes, Cliches were one of the hardest parts of my early days in recovery I cringed their singing cadences What Most really addicts and alcoholics are having physical withdrawals, DTs, puking their brains out, in prison, detox, or re...Leslie Jamison s captivating and exceptionally written book, The Recovering, is part addiction memoir and part rumination on the impact addiction plays on creating art It s a hybrid like a Cockapoo, or Taco Bell s French Toast Chalupa In between retellings of sneaking drinks and sad drunken debacles, Jamison worries that her recovery may signal the end of her creativity and artistic talent.I was struck by how much The Recovering was like the...Mommas, don t let your dissertations grow up to be memoirs._______I just spent most of the afternoon writing a review of this that Goodreads did not save, so please excuse me while I go rip up some trees by their roots.

• English
• 26 January 2017
Leslie Jamison
• Hardcover
• 544 pages
• 0316259616
• Leslie Jamison
• The Recovering