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Pdf [download]^^ A Million Little Pieces [R.A.R]Pdf [download]^^ AMillion Little Pieces[R.A.R]DescriptionAmazon.com Book DescriptionAt the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his frontteeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor anyrecollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, hechecked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop usingor 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 LittlePieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane 'covered with acolorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood.' Wanted by authorities in three states, withoutID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from adark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drugtreatment center where a doctor promises 'he will be dead within a few days' if he starts to useagain, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting 'The Fury' head on: Iwant a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, mostpoisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled withformaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled withmushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I wantsomething anything whatever however as much as I can. One of the more harrowing sections iswhen Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (hefights the mind-blowing waves of 'bayonet' pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls untilhis nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into anill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon hisrelease, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In thebook's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the JimCarroll Band's brutal survivor's lament 'People Who Died' kicking in on the soundtrack of theinevitable 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 useof repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The bookcould have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend underFrey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, leftalignedtext, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond
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