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Riverhead
May 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 1594481954
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering
coke addict "West Coast Director of a large Italian-
American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep
James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces. The son is,
of course, James, damaged perhaps beyond repair by years
of crack and alcohol addiction-and by more than a few
cruel tricks of fate. James embarks on his post-rehab existence in Chicago
emotionally devastated, broke, and afraid to get close to
other people. But then Leonard comes back into his life,
and everything changes. Leonard offers his "son" lucrative-
if illegal and slightly dangerous-employment. He teaches
James to enjoy life, sober, for the first time. He
instructs him in the art of "living boldly," pushes him to
pursue his passion for writing, and provides a watchful
and supportive veil of protection under which James can
get his life together. Both Leonard's and James's careers
flourish . . . but then Leonard vanishes. When the reasons
behind his mysterious absence are revealed, the book opens
up in unexpected emotional ways.
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