{"product_id":"white-out-michael-w-clune-9781946022608","title":"White Out","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael W. Clune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1946022608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946022608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.18w x 0.74d","brand":"Michael W. Clune","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069205836031,"sku":"9781946022608","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_219b3f09-dc9b-4d76-9fc5-56ee106cbe9d.jpg?v=1685423410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-out-michael-w-clune-9781946022608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}