Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
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What had happened to my gorgeous boy? To our family tree? What did I do incorrect? Persons are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, jolly and amusing, 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 devious warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. His obsession 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.
Gorgeous Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
Amazon.com ReviewGorgeous Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff’s string. Bright and powerful, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy establish himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly establish himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Gorgeous Boy is Nic’s tale, but from the perspective of his father, David. Achingly honest, it chronicles the treachery, pain, and terrifying question inscription that haunt the loved ones of an addict. Many respond to addiction with a painful oath of silence, but David Sheff opens up personal wounds to reinforce that it is a disease, and must be treated as such. Most importantly, his journey provides persons in similar situations with a commodity that they can never lose: hope –Dave Callanan
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What do you get with a self obsessed obsiquis writer? This book… a predictable marin lib that doesnt get it. Gee your son is wasted…what do you do…smoke a joint with him…excellent work pops.
this book drolls on with hip passages of writers,lyrics,and scientific quotes but misses every point….the father screws his sons life with divorce and lack of privileged power.
dont buy the book …at first sign your child is doing dope place them in a rehab program for at least 6 months.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Very narcissistic, pretentious and predictable of the inhabitants of the People’s Republic of San Francisco. Maybe if the leader spent more time parenting then worrying about his like life his kid would have been o.k. He wasn’t the victim, he was the cause. Attention parents! SELF ABSORBTION = MESSED UP KIDS!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Wow, incredible that the young girl from NY mentioned The Lost Years, I was thinking the same thing. Like the woman from NY I also read The Lost Years, last year. I am a person in recovery with five and half years of sobriety. As I said in my review for The Lost Years, I did and do recommend The Lost Years to all my students and colleagues as it was the finest piece of literature on addiction, I have ever read and as a PhD I read veraciously. This year I read Gorgeous Boy. David Sheff is a fantastic writer and an impressive tale teller. His journey through his son’s addiction is heartbreaking and compelling. His tale will help many people. Sorry to say for Gorgeous Boy it is frustrating as it is only one side of the tale, and I will not buy his sons book, due to lack of free time. For my students The Lost Years is the only book I will recommend as it saves them the $20 they have to pay for the `additional’ side of the tale. I suppose it was smart for the publisher to print two different books to tell the same tale but for families and individuals who need inspiration, insight and hope quickly, The Lost Years, with both sides in one book, is the only way to go. The Lost Years, with the mother daughter tale side by side, will be on the shelf for years to come.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’m all for learning from others mistakes, appealing life tale and documentaries, BUT…does it strike anyone else as a bit icky and exploitive that both the father and son have written books about this. Why not have mom publish a book as well? Aunts, uncles, might be appealing to hear their perspective…. Throw in the fact that both parents are in publishing and that People magazine, who the mom edits for, ran a huge tale and photo spread on it, and it leaves a bile-like icky taste. We’ve already had James Fry exploiting our borderline voyeuristic impulses, this tag team makes me equally sick. Deal with your problem, deal with your family tree, don’t look at it as another cash in.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I noticed that people were comparing this book with The Lost Years. I’ve
read both of them. Each one was worth reading, but I preferred the Lost
Years because it finished in a more inspiring way. The daughter, Kristina
Wandzilak, not only got sober, but she has built an entire career as a
successful interventionist who helps additional addicts and their families
through recovery. She’s a role model for addicts, and a beacon of hope
for their families, including the Sheffs.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5