Product Details
Atheneum, May 2009
eBook, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 143910333X
ISBN-13: 9781439103333
Ages: 15 and up
Grades: 9 and up
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Chapter 1
Description
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope.
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"Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight."
-- Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives
"Difficult to read and impossible to put down."
-- Chicago Tribune
"Tweak is...Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head -- and the kid can write."
-- Seattle Weekly
"An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict."
-- U.S. News & World Report
San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, 2009
...him following his failed attempt to climb K2. BEAUTIFUL BOY, David Sheff (Mariner; 336 pages; $14.95): Xxxxxx TWEAK, Nic Sheff (Atheneum; 352 pages; $9.99): Xxxxx THE WHITE TIGER, Aravind Adiga (Free Press; 304 pages; $14): A chauffeur in ...
Tuscaloosa News, January 25, 2009
...Three years ago, English?s company had 12 projects. In 2008, it had 140, including a trailer for Nic Sheff?s best-selling memoir, ?Tweak,? featuring droning rock music, fragments of text, and images of body parts, but never a full face. ?At ...
