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May 2015
On Sale: April 28, 2015
ISBN: 1250041155
EAN: 9781250041159
Kindle: B00O79WF9E
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Non-Fiction Memoir
"Whoever said you can't get sober for someone else never met
my mother, Mama Jean. When I came to in a Manhattan
emergency room after an overdose to the news that she was on
her way from Texas, I panicked. She was the last person I
wanted to see on that dark September morning, but the person
I needed the most." So begins this astonishing memoir—by turns both darkly comic
and deeply poignant—about this native Texan's long struggle
with alcohol, his complicated relationship with Mama Jean,
and his sexuality. From the age of five all Brickhouse
wanted was to be at a party with a drink in one hand and a
cigarette in the other and all Mama Jean wanted was to keep
him at that age, her Jamie doll forever. A Texan Elizabeth
Taylor with the split personality of Auntie Mame and Mama
Rose, always camera-ready and flamboyantly outspoken, Mama
Jean haunted him his whole life, no matter how far away he
went or how deep in booze he swam. Brickhouse's journey takes him from Texas to a high-profile
career in book publishing amid New York's glamorous drinking
life to his near-fatal descent into alcoholism. After Mama
Jean ushers him into rehab and he ultimately begins to dig
out of the hole he'd found himself in, he almost misses his
chance to prove that he loves her as much as she loves him.
Bitingly funny, raw, and insightful, Dangerous When Wet is
the unforgettable story of a unique relationship between a
son and his mother.
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