The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life: His own

✍ Scribed by Carr, David

• Book ID: 108920949
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781416580232

✦ Synopsis

Do we remember only the stories we can live with?

The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun , David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr's investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing -- and, in the end, more miraculous -- than he allowed himself to remember. Over the course of the book, he digs his way through a past that continues to evolve as he reports it.

That long-ago night he was so out of his mind that his best friend had to pull a gun on him to make him go away? A...