Clean: A remarkable walk along the cliff edge of life *2020 winner of the Christopher Bland Prize*
Autor Michele Kirschen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2019
"Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addiction with honesty and humour. And, like her, [we] come away changed forever." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, RSL Christopher Bland Prize
When Michele Kirsch's father is killed in a train crash, her mother gets the vapours and Michele gets extremely nervous. By her mid-teens, she has found salvation in valium. Her favourite words on the prescription sheet are "Take As Needed", which she interprets as Take All The Time.
Later, as a wife and mother, she adds alcohol into the mix, and before long her life is spinning out of control. Leaving home "for the sake of the family", she takes the scenic route to rehab, redemption and reinvention.
But this is no misery memoir. Clean is a darkly comic tale about the difficult choices we have to make as we navigate our lives. While working as a domestic cleaner in her 50s, Michele finds herself living vicariously through other people's messes, tidying her way through early sobriety. As the Duster of Large Things, she taps into her natural nosiness to reveal the absurdities of a seemingly banal job.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781780723815
ISBN-10: 1780723814
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Octopus Publishing
Colecția Short Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1780723814
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Octopus Publishing
Colecția Short Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Rarely can a dark memoir have been so comic, or a comic memoir so dark... The dry, black humour of the book makes it a pleasure to read... Poignant.
Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addiction with honesty and humour. And, like her, [we] come away changed forever.
Clean is that rare book that can literally make you laugh and cry within the space of a few pages. A searing and often painfully funny story of reaching rock bottom and finding hope again, it deserves to win every book award going.
A memoir of addiction and recovery that is funny, sad and transcendent. It says so much about addiction - not just the drink and drugs kind, but also all the rituals and behaviours we use to get by. I could not put it down.
I LOVE this book
Michele Kirsch is a born storyteller
I adored Michele Kirsch's memoir, I marveled at the form as well as the content of her remarkable life, and her honest, unflinching self-reflection.
This is a sharply observed memoir which is hilarious, totally compelling and impossible to put down. It bubbles with energy, wry observation and telling social comment from both sides of the Atlantic.
Kirsch is conscious of all the ironies in her life, poking fun at her early naiveté and daring us not to laugh at her mishaps.
Michele Kirsch's Clean swiftly asserts itself as a riot of unconscionable colour... Kirsch wrestles humour from her situation in the manner of a stand-up comedian. You laugh, even when you know the material should bring you to tears.
Her journey takes in relapses and broken bonds: a compassionate realism infused with quiet hope. Leavened with humour and wit, but never shying away from the fall-out and squalor of addiction, this is a compelling and exquisitely written memoir.
Never self-pitying... a warm, absorbing memoir
This is a remarkable, powerful, and often unbearably funny memoir in which cleaning and getting clean intertwine as a strange and magical form of redemption.
Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addiction with honesty and humour. And, like her, [we] come away changed forever.
Clean is that rare book that can literally make you laugh and cry within the space of a few pages. A searing and often painfully funny story of reaching rock bottom and finding hope again, it deserves to win every book award going.
A memoir of addiction and recovery that is funny, sad and transcendent. It says so much about addiction - not just the drink and drugs kind, but also all the rituals and behaviours we use to get by. I could not put it down.
I LOVE this book
Michele Kirsch is a born storyteller
I adored Michele Kirsch's memoir, I marveled at the form as well as the content of her remarkable life, and her honest, unflinching self-reflection.
This is a sharply observed memoir which is hilarious, totally compelling and impossible to put down. It bubbles with energy, wry observation and telling social comment from both sides of the Atlantic.
Kirsch is conscious of all the ironies in her life, poking fun at her early naiveté and daring us not to laugh at her mishaps.
Michele Kirsch's Clean swiftly asserts itself as a riot of unconscionable colour... Kirsch wrestles humour from her situation in the manner of a stand-up comedian. You laugh, even when you know the material should bring you to tears.
Her journey takes in relapses and broken bonds: a compassionate realism infused with quiet hope. Leavened with humour and wit, but never shying away from the fall-out and squalor of addiction, this is a compelling and exquisitely written memoir.
Never self-pitying... a warm, absorbing memoir
This is a remarkable, powerful, and often unbearably funny memoir in which cleaning and getting clean intertwine as a strange and magical form of redemption.