Bøker av David Sheff

A teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view - a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father''s love: ΓÇ£A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.ΓÇ¥—Anne LamottWhat had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David SheffΓÇÖs journey through his son NicΓÇÖs addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timoth├⌐e Chalamet.With a new Afterword from the author.

An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the bestselling author of Beautiful Boy

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.