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Million Little Pieces
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Amazon.com Book DescriptionAt the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front
teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any
recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he
checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using
or die before he reached age 24. This is Freyâ€s acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.
Amazon.com ReviewThe electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little
Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane 'covered with a
colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood.' Wanted by authorities in three states, without
ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a
dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug
treatment center where a doctor promises 'he will be dead within a few days' if he starts to use
again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting 'The Fury' head on: I
want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most
poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with
formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with
mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want
something anything whatever however as much as I can. One of the more harrowing sections is
when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he
fights the mind-blowing waves of 'bayonet' pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until
his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an
ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his
release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the
book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim
Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament 'People Who Died' kicking in on the soundtrack of the
inevitable film adaptation. The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style.
Like his steady mantra, 'I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal,' Frey's use
of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book
could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under
Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, leftaligned
text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond

the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons