Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Bill Clegg 2010

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
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Our Take

Clegg was a successful literary agent who smoked crack for two months straight and lost everything. The memoir is written in the present tense with a junkie's tunnel vision — each hit a catastrophe in slow motion. No epiphanies, no turning points, just the gravitational pull of a substance stronger than any reason to stop.

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