| Description |
308 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author Sam Lansky. The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life. By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed from the glittering streets of Manhattan, to a wilderness boot camp in Utah, to a psych ward in New Orleans, he only found more opportunities to create chaos--until finally, he began to face himself. In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, The Gilded Razor is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism that introduces a powerful new voice to the confessional genre"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling coming-of-age drug memoir from debut author Sam Lansky"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Lansky, Sam -- Childhood and youth.
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Teenagers -- Substance use -- United States -- Biography.
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Drug addiction -- Treatment -- United States.
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Gay teenagers -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- Drug Dependence.
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Lansky, Sam. (OCoLC)fst01988009
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Drug addiction -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst01430233
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Gay teenagers. (OCoLC)fst00939229
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Teenagers -- Substance use.
(OCoLC)fst01145653
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Lansky, Sam.
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Teenagers -- Drug use -- United States -- Biography.
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Drug addiction -- Treatment.
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Gay teenagers -- United States -- Biography.
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American authors -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781476776149 (hardback) |
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1476776148 (hardback) |
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9781476776156 (paperback) |
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1476776156 (paperback) |
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9781476776163 (ebook) |
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