Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
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Narrated by:
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Anthony Heald
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Written by:
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David Sheff
About this listen
The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne Lamott
Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son’s drug addiction. David’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.
Before meth, Sheff’s son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs—denial, 3 a.m. phone calls—the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction.
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
©2007 David Sheff (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
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- 18-01-22
A Must Read
It is a raw, heartbreaking but at the same time beautiful, memoire of a father whose son is an addict. It showed me how mundane at the same time disastrous addiction can be. The book was written so well, from the childhood, throughout the years of addiction, you can't help but feel empathy for nic even tbh you don't know him and you can aswell feel what a father is going through. We see how a sweet and kind and loving person can also be an addict which help breaks the norm behind addiction. I also love the chapters with not only experience but with Information that help you understand more about the disease, and taught me about the facts I was unaware of.
It broke my heart with how clearly I could acknowledge both perspectives, of an addict and the one suffering with them.
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