"Gritty and compelling."
-- Richard Price,
author of Lush Life and Clockers

“ … bracingly honest memoir. In sharp and sometimes poetic prose, the author takes a detailed inventory of his years of drug addiction …
-- New Yorker

“Carr's style is as elegant as his saga is gritty, and the story of his life is simply extraordinary. "
-- Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme

“It adds up to a riveting, improbable story.” – New York Observer

“… breathtakingly candid, laugh-out-loud funny, (and) heroically rigorous.”
– Kurt Andersen,
author of Heyday
and Turn of the Century

"[a] remarkable memoir…”
– Harper’s

"A brilliantly written,
brutally honest memoir."
-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred)