# Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

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- Authors: [Bill Clegg](https://www.bookquiver.com/bill-clegg)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4648-363-3
- Published: 2011-06-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful 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.