Michael W. Clune

White Out -- Michael W. Clune, Paperback

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A classic of addiction and recovery.

How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a "white out," so that every time you use it is the first time--new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune's story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls "the memory disease."

With dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune's account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life--between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature--we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge.

After his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. White Out is more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.

Author: Michael W. Clune
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
ISBN: 9781946022608

Product Tags:

Biography & Autobiography, Body/ Mind & Spirit, Inspiration & Personal Growth, McNally Editions, Memoirs, Michael W. Clune, Paperback, Self-Help, Twelve-Step Programs

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