He was always rather rebellious, and began taking drugs when he was still a teenager in high school. It started out with innocent teenage pot smoking, typical stuff for a suburban minneapolis kid in the 1980s. That is, carrs book both takes apart the wellworn conventions of the genre and takes advantage of them. These powerful themes ricochet through lorenzo carcaterras new novel like bullets from a machine gun. David carrs most popular book is the night of the gun. Carr wasted a lot of time strung out on pills and powder and shooting up.
The night of the gun is an autobiography of sorts, in so far as the author now clean and sober for some years undertakes to investigate his life during those years of addiction and actually interview not just his friends and family on the subject, but also arresting officers, representing lawyers and the doctors who treated him from time. Carr differentiated his story from other selfdescribed junkie memoirs by taking two years to rigorously report on his own life, interviewing those closest and uncovering the records that might corroborate. Fierce, gritty, and remarkable, the night of the gun is an odyssey youll find hard to forget people. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. David carr was an addict for more than twenty years first dope, then coke, then finally crack before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crackdealer mother.
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