PRAISE FOR PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN

"…a streamlined, hair-raising, high-torque memoir, most of which is dedicated to his final, punishing binge, with flashbacks to the life that led up to it." -Vanity Fair

"Bill Clegg has produced a lyrical, moving crack addiction memoir, PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN that is utterly frank and utterly readable." -Out Magazine

"cuts through the addiction-memoir noise, recounting the glamour and pathos of self-destruction with efficiency and disturbing clarity." -Details

"It turns out there is room on the shelf for one more addiction memoir. The true-life horror here: A hotshot literary agent opens his own shop while falling hard for crack cocaine. Clegg spare no one's feelings, least of all his own; it's not the brutality that makes this worthwhile but rather the strange beauty in the stream-of-consciousness prose. We're voyeurs, as helpless to stop the carnage as the author himself." -GQ