{"product_id":"white-out-paperback-1","title":"White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael W. Clune\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tenth-anniversary edition of Michael Clune's classic memoir of addiction and recovery: \"Dreamily exact . . . sensual and hilarious . . . One of the year's best books\" (The New Yorker).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a \"white out,\" so that every time you use it is the first time--new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune's story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls \"the memory disease.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune's account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life--between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature--we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. \u003ci\u003eWhite Out \u003c\/i\u003eis more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.51 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120334573703,"sku":"9781946022608","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ad3d5b6485d3afb6cabb244a0aa07c17.webp?v=1732546590","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/white-out-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}