

Cocaine's Son
A Memoir
Author: Dave Itzkoff
Narrator: Mark Turetsky
Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/18/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Author: Dave Itzkoff
Narrator: Mark Turetsky
Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/18/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Dave Itzkoff is the author of Mad as Hell, Cocaine’s Son, and Lads. He is a culture reporter at The New York Times, where he writes regularly about film, television, theater, music, and popular culture. He previously worked at Spin, Maxim, and Details, and his work has appeared in GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
Um, alright. I am not really sure how to review this book. Allegedly it’s about a boy “coming of age” under the specter of his father’s cocaine addiction. First of all, he’s in college by page 44 so it’s not really a childhood story. Also, for the first half of the book, you could replace “getting h......more
I so wanted to like this book. After all, I'm a big fan of stories of recovery and redemption and one of my guilty TV pleasures is the A&E show, INTERVENTION. But the book was a disappointment from the very beginning. For a topic so freighted with the potential for drama (a childhood shadowed by the......more
Yeah... I'm not sure what I'd say about the book. It was interesting, to say the least. The beginning was okay, but then the middle and the end was a whole mess that I did not understand one bit. There was a lot happening, and once I finished I literally didn't understand one thing.......more
tragic and hilarious I loved the book although I could easily get lost in his tsunamis of anger and sadness. He is brilliant in his word choices particularly if one comes from a family, (as most of us do,) of mortifying, broken members.......more