{"product_id":"white-out-9781946022608","title":"White Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe tenth-anniversary edition of Michael Clune's classic memoir of addiction and recovery: \"Dreamily exact . . . sensual and hilarious . . . One of the year's best books\" (The New Yorker).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow do you describe an addiction in which your 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, vivid? Michael W. Clune's story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls \"the memory disease.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune's account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life--between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature--we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. \u003ci\u003eWhite Out \u003c\/i\u003eis more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613994291474,"sku":"9781946022608","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a272f69-83b2-44ba-a38d-47275943c75f.jpg?v=1732424158","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-out-9781946022608","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}