Ninety Days, Zachary Lazar
Ninety Days, Zachary Lazar
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Ninety Days
A Memoir of Recovery

Author: Zachary Lazar

Narrator: Zachary Lazar

Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2012

Synopsis

The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the seemingly unshakably sober Asa.

At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses with only three days left. Written with uncompromised immediacy, Ninety Days begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends-and tells the wrenching story of Clegg's battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.

About Zachary Lazar

Zachary Lazar is the author of six books, including Vengeance. He is a professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kasa on February 25, 2017

This is the book James Frey wishes he'd written......more

Goodreads review by George on November 20, 2022

A true roller coaster ride of a read. Fast and thrilling. Those moments when the addict decides to pick up still remain mysterious. In this memoir they seem to happen at any time, for no real reason. I did find myself worrying about Benny, the long suffering cat who did not seem to like his erratic......more

Goodreads review by Abeck01 on February 07, 2013

This book fills in a lot of the blanks from "Portrait of the Young Man as an Addict." Clegg clearly withheld a great deal of information from his first book, making his rehab and recovery seem much more easy than it really was. I was extremely angry at him as I read this new book and realized how he......more

Goodreads review by E. on June 02, 2015

I live for a good memoir, but in the words of Nicki Minaj, "I don't know, mane." A memoir versus a personal narrative requires a lot of reflection, right? NINETY DAYS (NINETY DAZE) is a beach read: there's no causation, there's zero analysis, there are tons of mildly interesting characters who all ci......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on February 05, 2022

I love book about addiction and this one was so well written. Heartbreaking but so truthful and engaging- couldn’t put it down!......more

Quotes

PRAISE FOR PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN:

"Mesmerizing...Reading it is like letting the needle down on a Nick Drake album. Clegg tells his story in short, atmospheric paragraphs, each separated by white space, each its own strobe-lighted snapshot of decadent poetic memory.... Clegg can write." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Clegg spares no one's feelings, least of all his own; it's not the brutality that makes this book worthwhile but rather the strange beauty of the stream-of consciousness prose." -Mickey Rapkin, GQ

"Beautifully rendered in spare and elegant prose, a rumination on the human condition that recalls William Styron's memoir of depression, Darkness Visible" -Kirk Davis Swinehart, Chicago Tribune

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