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Chargement... The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoirpar Liam Pieper
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Liam Pieper was raised by his bohemian parents to believe in freedom and creativity, and that there's nothing wrong with smoking a little marijuana to make life more interesting. A fast learner, Liam combined hippie self-actualisation with gen Y entrepreneurialism. By his early teens he had a fledgling drug habit, and a thriving business selling pot around the suburbs of Melbourne from the back of his pushbike. He picked up important life skills, like how to befriend a deranged jujitsu master, how to impress his girlfriend's mother by getting arrested in front of her, and how to negotiate pocket money based on how much he was charging his parents for an ounce. But from these highs (chemical, financial and otherwise), Liam's life fell to dramatic lows. The muddled flower child became a petty criminal and an amoral coke monster. After a family tragedy and then his arrest on several counts of possession and trafficking, Liam had to consider: had it been a mistake to adopt the practices of a counterculture without any of its ethics? Hilarious, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year is a memoir about family, addiction and learning how to live with yourself, from a sharp and original new Australian voice. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is a breathless memoir about the depraved, disturbing, hilarious and bonkers things that Liam Pieper got up to over about a decade from the age of 15 or so. By the time he finished high school, Pieper had a thriving drug dealing business, fancied himself as a bit of a gangster and was already attracting the attention of the police. After the death of his brother, he packs in the dealing and focusses more heavily on using with increasingly disturbing results. Pieper's book manages to dodge away from being the cliched recovery memoir, happily acknowledging the wonderful times he had on drugs and gently mocking himself for his own sanctimony once he'd stopped using. It's a wild ride - genuinely funny at times and slightly terrifying at others, it provides a refreshingly clear-eyed view of a druggy, messy world. ( )