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This River A Memoir

✍ Scribed by James Brown

Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 101 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Berkeley
ISBN: 1582438749

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✦ Synopsis

"Continues where Brown's first memoir,The Los Angeles Diaries , left off. It's molten stuff, the story of his efforts to control his river of rage." --Los Angeles Times

Award-winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where Brown left off in his first memoir, describing his tenuous relationship with sobriety, telling of agonizing relapses, and tracking his attempts to become a better father.

This is the heartbreaking and at times uplifting tale of Brown's battles, peeking into his former life as an addict and detailing his subsequent ascent to sobriety and fight for redemption.

"A beautifully crafted and intensely moving book. Without artifice or pretension--without false moves of any sort--James Brown goes after the biggest literary game: death, love, children,...

✦ Subjects

Brown, James, -- 1957

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