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| The Harder They Fall
(Hardcover)
Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery
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| The heady, drug-induced decades of the sixties and seventies provide the backdrop for this all-star account of addiction and recovery. Comedians Richard Pryor and Richard Lewis, musicians Grace Slick, Dr. John, and Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night), actors Malcolm McDowell and Mariette Hartley, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright, writer Anne Lamott, and athletes Doc Ellis and Gerry Cooney are among the many celebrities interviewed for this inside look at what can happen when fame and fortune meet the recklessness and ruin of addiction. While the stories are as unique and vibrant as the individual celebrities who tell them, the irrefutable collective message is that addiction knows no boundaries. The disease strikes and topples even those who are seemingly on top of the world. Still, The Harder They Fall is a book of hope. In this modern-day version of the 1980s New York Times best-seller The Courage to Change, the famous people profiled have climbed out from the devastation of addiction to lead lives of extraordinary accomplishment. |
 Gary StrombergGary Stromberg and Jane Merrill are co-authors of The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery (Hazelden, 2005). In 1967, Stromberg co-founded a large and influential public relations firm in the entertainment business. He represented luminaries such as the Rolling Stones, Three Dog Night and Muhammad Ali. He also co-produced the motion pictures Car Wash and The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh. Today Stromberg heads a small public relations company in Westport, Connecticut. Merrill has written articles about art, style, and popular history for dozens of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Town & Country, The New Republic, Redbook, The Christian Science Monitor, and Connoisseur. She is the author of books on raising bilingual children, child care alternatives, and relationships. [ More] |
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ISBN-10:
1592851568
ISBN-13:
9781592851560
HCI-Item:
Z7258
Book Format:
Hardcover
Page Count:
200
Publication Date:
04/01/2005
Category:
Self-Help / Recovery
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