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White Out : the Secret Life of Heroin : a Memoir by Clune, Michael W. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Clune’s gripping account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other, as we enter the mind of the addict and navigate the world therein. How do you describe an addiction in which the drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the first time--new, fascinating, and vivid? Michael W. Clune’s original, edgy yet literary telling of his own story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls the Memory Disease.With black humor and quick, rhythmic prose, Clune’s gripping account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other, as we enter the mind of the addict and navigate the world therein. Clune whisks us between the streets of Baltimore and the university campus, revealing his dual life while a graduate student teaching literature. We spiral downward with Clune--from nodding off in an abandoned row-house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous Jesus freak to scanning a crowded lecture hall for an enemy with a gun.After experiencing his descent into addiction, we go with him through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home and to the world of color. It is there

Who reads White Out : the Secret Life of Heroin : a Memoir?

Author

Clune, Michael W.

Publisher

Hazelden Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616492083

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Psychology, Self Help

Rating

3.68 / 5 (253 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14