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Beautiful Boy

David Sheff

20089 pagesabout 10 minutes
2008
first published
  • 2007Simon & Schuster · ENGISBN 9781847371300
  • 2008Center Point Pub. · 464 pages · ENGISBN 9781602852945
  • 2009Mariner · 352 pagesISBN 9780547203881
  • 2009Simon & Schuster, Limited · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9781847391612
  • 2008Blackstone Audiobooks · 9 pages · ENGISBN 9781433204678
  • 2008Blackstone Audio Inc. · 10 pages · ENGISBN 9781433204685
  • 2009Perfection Learning · 340 pagesISBN 9781613838198
  • 2008Houghton Mifflin · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780618683352

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff 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 subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? The police? The hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll, but as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help

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  • Drug usemoderateunreviewed
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