The gilded razor book

Sam lansky sharply funny and compulsively readable, the gilded razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author sam lansky. How i made a mess of my lifeand cleaned it up time. The gilded razor sam lansky 9781476776149 netgalley. As featured in people magazine, vanity fair, and on entertainment. Jan, 2016 the gilded razor is an unsparing plunge into a heedless young mind, one that spans the country and the internal life of a young man refusing, and finally assenting, to know himself. Sharply funny and compulsively readable, the gilded razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author sam lansky. By the age of seventeen, sam lansky was an allstar. By the age of seventeen, sam lansky was an allstar student with ivy league aspirations in his final year at an. A memoir written by sam lansky which was published in 2016112.

By the age of seventeen, sam lansky was an allstar student with ivy league aspirations in his final year at an elite new york city prep school. Now 27 years old, he was just 19 when he got straight with quite a story to tell about the making of a teen addict. Lansky speaks as intelligently and directly about that familiar queer experienceone defined by dive gay bars, trysts with older men, drugs, alcohol, sex, shame and embarrassment. To be an addict is to make messes wherever you go, needlessly, and then you get clean and put. Here is a quick description and cover image of book the gilded razor. Lanskys account of his drug use is riveting but also very upsetting. The gilded razor is the true story of a double life. The gilded razor is lanskys searing, savagely honest memoir of his wild days harrowing throughout and undeniably hopeful in the end. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the gilded razor. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Lansky writes with a rawness that i havent seen often, and its what. There is much in this memoir of addiction that comes off as stereotypical, from the socialite.

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Aug 02, 2016 the gilded razor is the true story of a double life that new york times bestselling author george hodgman called virtuosic. In this wonderful, compelling book, sam lansky has created a charismatic teenage narrator who shows that addiction is no respecter of class, education or intelligence. A stroll down millionaires row american chronicles a guide to newports cliff walk. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the gilded razor. Otherwise, the book reads mostly like a confessional written to atone for his sins.

But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his. The gilded razor is lanskys searing, savagely honest memoir of his wild days. The gilded razor is the true story of a double life that new york times bestselling author. New york times bestselling author bill clegg from debut author sam lansky. Marta kauffman boards the gilded razor tv adaptation. By the age of seventeen, sam lansky was an allstar student with ivy league aspirations in his final year at an elite new york city. Jan 19, 2016 but thats the thing i learned while i was writing my booki learned why i was writing it at all. Sharply funny and compulsively readable, the gilded razor is a powerful addition to the literature of active addiction and recovery new york times bestselling author bill clegg from debut author sam lansky. A candid, eyeopening memoir of illicit drugs and sexthough, for some readers, it may prove too intimate and too full of semigraphic descriptions of the sex, drugs, and misery he suffered through before finally quitting before he was 20.

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