At the age of forty-four—at the height of his success—Richard lewis found himself on a gurney in a hospital emergency room, raging and hallucinating from a mix of alcohol and drugs. In this blistering memoir, the famously neurotic comedian and regular guest star of the hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm, who was named "one of the most influential humorists of the twentiety century" by GQ magazine, chronicles his nearly twenty-year struggle with alcohol and drug addictions, and his rocky road to recovery. The result is a raw, intense, eye-opening, no-punches story of one man's journey into—and out of—addiction.