# Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days

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- Authors: [Bill Clegg](https://www.bookquiver.com/bill-clegg)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-10-04

## Description

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattan's underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control. Ninety Days begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends - and tells the wrenching story of Bill Clegg's battle to reclaim his life. The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction. But as any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning. . . Published for the first time in one volume: Bill Clegg's unflinching account of the addiction that nearly ended everything.

## Editions

### Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-819-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2018-10-04
- Language: en_GB