Portrait of an addict as a young man

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The naughty, drug fueled, paranoia and urination fascination memoir Portrait of a Young Man as an Addict is the literary agent And, whoa, is this a good time.

Clegg describes it as a new surge of energy, a perfect oblivion, a kind of peace, kinetic, sexual and euphoric, a hurricane, a warm tender caress/5. "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an instant classic. Anybody who knows anything about addiction will feel morally altered by this book.

To an extraordinary degree, it has both beauty and truth."―Andrew O'Hagan/5(94). Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is one of the best books I have ever read, it grabbed me by the balls and wouldn't let go until the end.

Bill Clegg doesn't try to impress us that he is another Proust, but he does impress never-the-less, with honesty and humility, sharing in raw edged and well written detail the degradation of childhood, and dashed successes of adulthood due to /5().

"Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an instant classic. Anybody who knows anything about addiction will feel morally altered by this book. To an extraordinary degree, it has both beauty and truth." (Andrew O'Hagan) "Bill Clegg's memoir is a startling, hair-raising, and compulsively readable account of one man's descent into the hell of addiction."/5(94).

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But there was something else: Bill Clegg was a crack addict. His new book, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, tells the story of.

In his memoir, “Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man,” Bill Clegg describes the few times he tried to prepare his own crack. “I wasted the coke, burned my hands, and ended up with a wet glob.

And so it is with “Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man,” a memoir by Bill Clegg, a young literary agent in New York who rose quickly in a crowded field and then almost as quickly yanked the wheel.

"Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir", Little, Brown and Company, Quite a Story Amos Lassen Bill Clegg was a rising name in the publishing industry but he messed up his life during a bender.5/5(4).

James Joyce wrote The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Why do you think Bill Clegg chose to call his memoir Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. Do you think the two books are similar. What do you think is the significance of the author’s childhood affliction.

Why do you think he wrote those passages in the third person. He had everything a young literary man in New York might want: a thriving agency, top authors, love, esteem.

But it was crack that he wanted most of all. " Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an instant classic. Anybody who knows anything about addiction will feel morally altered by this book. To an extraordinary degree, it has both beauty and truth. It goes beyond its own revelations to /5(52).

"Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an instant classic. Anybody who knows anything about addiction will feel morally altered by this book. To an extraordinary degree, it has both beauty and truth."―Andrew O'Hagan/5(66). ‘Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man’ The first time he smokes crack.

He never tells this story. Instead he usually says he tried it at a. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man Literary agent Bill Clegg was talented, successful and secretly addicted to crack. His arresting new Author: Jonathan Van Meter. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce.A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek n questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish Author: James Joyce.

Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York. He is the author of the novel Did You Ever Have A Family and the memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. He has written for the New York Times, Laphams Quarterly, New 5/5(2). He also explores the shape of addiction, how its pattern -- not its cause -- can be traced to the past.

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Clegg, a high-flying young literary agent in Manhattan. Bill Clegg is a sex addict, drug addict and highly evolved member of the literary elite in Manhattan. Even if he is sober, he’s recovering, always.

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