{"product_id":"orangutan-a-memoir-9780307453402","title":"Orangutan: A Memoir","description":"Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism--from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts--to tell the harrowing truth about the modern Irish immigrant experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrangutan\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a generation of young men and women in search of identity in a foreign land, both in love with and at odds with the country they've made their home. So much more than just another memoir about battling addiction, Orangutan is an odyssey across the unforgiving terrain of 1980s, '90s, and post-9\/11 America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether he is languishing in the boozy squalor of the Bronx, coke-fueled and manic in the streets of Manhattan, chasing Hunter S. Thompson's American Dream from San Francisco to the desert, or turning the South into his beer-soaked playground, Broderick plainly and unflinchingly charts what it means to be Irish in America, and how the grips of heritage can destroy a man's soul. But brutal though \u003ci\u003eOrangutan\u003c\/i\u003e may be, it is ultimately a story of hope and redemption--it is the story of an Irish drunk unlike any you've met before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOLIN BRODERICK was raised Irish Catholic in the heart of Northern Ireland. In 1988, at the age of twenty, he moved to the Bronx to drink, work construction, and pursue his dream of becoming a writer. For the next twenty years, as he drank himself into oblivion: there were failed marriages, car wrecks, hospitals and jail cells. Few people who have been a slave to an addiction as vicious, destructive, and unrelenting as Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrangutan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an Irish drunk unlike any you've met before. Broderick has written a play, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFather Who, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and published articles in \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Echo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911222956306,"sku":"9780307453402","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_426dbe69-6159-441c-886b-39af5e6e1ccf.jpg?v=1738734118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/orangutan-a-memoir-9780307453402","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}