Leslie Jamison
Lucas Thompson reviews 'The Recovering: Intoxication and its aftermath' by Leslie Jamison
Lucas Thompson
Friday, 31 August 2018
There is an eerie sameness to addiction memoirs, which tend to follow the same basic structure. In the beginning, there is some immense and unassuageable pain, followed by the discovery of one substance or another that dulls some of that pain. Then comes the dawning realisation ...
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Published in
January-February 2019, no. 408