A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.
Published: London : John Murray, 2003.
A Million
Little Pieces is a bleak and
compelling autobiographical novel which recounts 23-year-old Frey’s attempts to
kick a severe drug and alcohol addiction in Hazelden, a rehabilitation clinic in Chicago.
His account of the agonizing six weeks of detox is harrowing in its descriptive
flashbacks to the rage-fuelled binges that led to rehab. Frey’s writing style, described as “literary
fireworks” is punctuated by short sentences and
wild paragraph breaks, all of which create a surreal experience.
Frey’s book was later exposed as fraudulent after investigators discovered that certain elements were greatly exaggerated.
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Citation: UTS Library catalogue
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I read this after the exposure and all the time kept thinking, if Frey was so "out of it" on drugs, how could he recount the early days if it was true?
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