Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction By David Sheff ISBN: 9781602852945 Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 464 Edition: Large Print Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Center Point Large Print Description: 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 Sheffâ€TMs journey through his son Nicâ€TMs addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic.Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number: 2008022670

International Standard Book Number: 1602852944 : HRD: 9781602852945 : HRD
   - Terms of availability: $32.95

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: HV5831.C2
   - Item number: S54 2008

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 362.29/9
   - Classification number: B

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Sheff, David.

Title Statement
   - Title: Beautiful boy :
   - Remainder of title: a father's journey through his son's addiction /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: David Sheff.

Edition Statement: Center Point large print ed.: Large print

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Thorndike, Me. :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Center Point Pub.,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2008.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 464 p.
   - Dimensions: 22 cm.