A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.

James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become, which he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.

An uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and reconstructed, and a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery, A Million Little Pieces marks the debut of a bold and talented literary voice.

©2003 James Frey (P)2003 HighBridge Company

Critic reviews

"A Million Little Pieces is this generation's most comprehensive book about addiction: a heartbreaking memoir defined by its youthful tone and poetic honesty." (Bret Easton Ellis)

Raw and powerful.

James shows his reader what mental pain is. It is sometimes much worse than physical pain. He shows his reader how addiction is a separate entity from a person's real spirit and how it can control you and keep trying to control you after you have taken control back. He let's you see the horror one faces going through detox and what mental strength one must have to overcome addition. The book is a real mental education.

TRULY A GOOD READ

I read some of the reviews, you can't make everyone happy. But I will tell you this much, James Frey has a lot of guts to put his life and past out there..........I say BRAVO. I loved it!

great read!

this nook was one of the best I have read, I do wish there was information about James and his life after getting out of the rehab center , but besides that, it was awesome

An Addicts nightmare

This story is awesome and engaging but for those of us that actually have addiction issues or are fighting our own demons this story can be a real trigger. The author has a really good handle on what he is describing and for me it was just too close to home.
Recommended for family members or others trying to understand.

loved this book

everythi g he went though felt so real. I had this book a while ago and lost it so when I saw I could just buy it here to listen to it it made my heart happy. love it love it love it. I just wish the voices were different for each person