A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky.
By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.
James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become—which he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.
A shatteringly good listen, A MILLION LITTLE PIECES is brought to life by Oliver Wyman's searing performance. Imagine a post-millennial Holden Caulfield with severe drug and alcohol dependence bulling his way through a world he hates and fears. This tersely poetic journal relates author Frey's experience of hitting bottom somewhere deep below sea level and finding himself a battered 23-year-old funneled to the country's best rehab facility, desperately hoping he can recover. Raw, graphic, intelligent, visceral, this work should be mandatory classroom fare and nominated for something! A sobering piece, not to be missed. D.J.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
--PublishersWeekly...
"Wyman’s reading of Frey’s terse, raw prose is ideal."
--AudioFile...
"A shatteringly good listen, A Million Little Pieces is brought to life by Oliver Wyman's searing performance. . . . Raw, graphic, intelligent, visceral, this work should be . . . nominated for something! A sobering piece, not to be missed."
--The Herald-Sun...
"Wyman sinks himself fully into the role, finding full expression for thelarger-than-life emotions."
--Library Bookwatch...
". . . a gripping audio . . . "
--The Plain Dealer...
"Wyman reads thesestunningly brutal passages with urgency and understanding."
About the Author
JAMES FREY was born in Cleveland in 1969; he has since lived in six countries and ten states. He has worked as a film director, film producer, skateboard salesman, camp counselor, picture framer, bouncer, and hotel security guard. He lives in New York.
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