Aged just twenty-three, James Frey had destroyed his body and his mind almost beyond repair. When he enters a rehabilitation centre to try to reclaim his life, he has to fight to determine what future, if any, he has. His lack of self-pity, cynicism and piety gives him an unflinching honesty - a fearless candour that is at once charming and appalling, searing and darkly funny.

Powerful and searingly self-critical ... easily the most remarkable non-fiction book about drugs and drug taking since Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... Perversely uplifting, as a memoir, it is almost mythic' Observer This edition now contains a disclaimer from the author, about the fictionalising of some details in the book.