THE RECOVERING

Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction/ from the inside, it can f eel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamis on draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.Part mem oir, par...[Read more]