The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery
✍ Scribed by Stromberg, Gary
- Book ID
- 107818112
- Publisher
- Hazelden Publishing
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781592851560
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Updated with photos and new interviews.
The heady, drug-induced decades of the sixties and seventies provide the backdrop for this all-star account of addiction and recovery. Among the celebrities interviewed by Gary Stromberg for The Harder They Fall are comedian Richard Lewis; musicians Alice Cooper, Grace Slick, Dr. John, and Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night); actors Malcolm McDowell and Mariette Hartley; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright; writer Anne Lamott; and athletes Doc Ellis and Gerry Cooney. The good news? All are recovering and leading lives of extraordinary accomplishment.
"My own disease would like to tell you that my 'isms' are now my 'wasims.' But as this book reads, it's an ongoing process that leads to the sweetest spirituality. My hat's off and great kudos to those who share their story like it is for those of us who still need to hear it." -Steven Tyler - Aerosmith
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