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Author: Stephen Elliott
Publisher: Graywolf Pr
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1555975380
ISBN-13: 9781555975388
Product ID: EPID72717255
Description: In this scintillating memoir, Stephen Elliott finds that a debilitating mix of drugs and blood may be the only way to beat his writer's block. Elliott, the award-winning author of HAPPY BABY, was at the end of his rope and his bank accou...
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In this scintillating memoir, Stephen Elliott finds that a debilitating mix of drugs and blood may be the only way to beat his writer's block. Elliott, the award-winning author of HAPPY BABY, was at the end of his rope and his bank account after a two-year writing dry spell, during which time he became dependent on the prescription amphetamine Adderall, which is meant to enhance focus and alertness. Then he encountered a bizarre murder case wherein a renowned computer programmer named Hans Riesling had been accused of killing his ex-wife, whom he had found through a Russian mail-order bride service. During the course of the police investigation, Riesling's former roommate Sean Sturgeon, an acquaintance who Elliott knew through their shared proclivity for illicit sex clubs, had made several startling confessions of his own. Sturgeon revealed that he had been in love with Riesling's former wife and that the two had carried on an affair, and though he had not killed her, he had previously murdered eight other people who had sexually abused him while he was a child. Astoundingly, the cops brushed off Sturgeon's admission, leaving the drug-addled Elliott to attempt to scrutinize the merits of the confession on his own. Determined to penetrate Sturgeon's demented psyche to discover whether he is a killer or merely a liar, Elliott finds he must confront his own chemically-fueled conscience, as well as the ghost of his father, who left sinister hints about his involvement in a murder which evidence indicates never happened.

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Publication Date:2009-09-01

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Length:208 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
The author of Happy Baby describes his Adderall-marked analysis of a fellow patron of the underground S&M scene, who at the height of a friend's 2007 murder trial confessed to eight obscure murders for which he was likely innocent.

Industry Reviews
"An endlessly fascinating memoir by a profoundly courageous writer....Despite the luridness of the subject matter, the author creates a refined, beautiful work of art. His themes...actually encapsulate the nature of truth, self, love and memory, and the limits of art to get them out. Deserves a place on the shelf next to such classics of uninhibited American introspection as ON THE ROAD and A FAN'S NOTES." (starred review)
(08/01/2009)

"Although THE ADDERALL DIARIES is being marketed as a true crime book, it is not the sort that serves up its felonies in a lurid gravy of gore. When he chooses to focus on the Reiser trail, Elliott writes with a grace and precision that calls to mind Truman Capote's landmark work, IN COLD BLOOD. He, too, is fascinated by questions of motive, how our capacity to love is disfigured into evil, and our tangled mechanisms of denial. But the prime suspect in this book is not the murderer. It's the author."
(08/30/2009)

"[A] grim, soul-searching account of addiction and writer's block....[and] a frenzied exploration into the arbitrary nature of truth and innocence, with mystery and speculation at its core....Unlike most addiction memoirs, written from the safety of sobriety, THE ADDERALL DIARIES comes from the frantic depths of dependency..."
(09/03/2009)

"Elliott remains intently curious and utterly devoted to the healing alchemy of clear, lacerating language....With astute insights into anger, despair, drug use, sadomasochism, and the elusiveness of love and justice, Elliott is a poet of pain."
(09/01/2009)

"THE ADDERALL DIARIES should be a lurid work....The memoir...covers memories of a wretched childhood, drug use and Elliott's addiction to masochistic sex. Yet this is no potboiler, but a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you've never quite seen it before. The intensity of Elliott's often beautiful prose evokes the effects of Adderall..."
(09/20/2009)

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