

Tweak
Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Author: Nic Sheff
Narrator: Richard Powers
Unabridged: 12 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 01/01/2008
Author: Nic Sheff
Narrator: Richard Powers
Unabridged: 12 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 01/01/2008
Nic Sheff is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Still in his twenties, he continues to fight daily battles with his addictions. His writing has been published in Newsweek, Nerve, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
I don't mean to put down other people's opinions but you all are being incredibly harsh. This is Nic's true story, of growing up on Meth, and unless you have also overcome such a drug, it's not your place to call him a horrible, pathetic person. And to say that throughout some of the book, he's putt......more
I heard about Tweak/Beautiful Boy through the provocative NY Times book review a few months ago. The idea of having such a harrowing story told from two opposite perspectives really piqued my interest. Tweak is nothing if not engaging. That being said, I find the writing to be sub-par, at best. After......more
Opening Line: "I'd heard rumors about what happened to Lauren, I mean, I never even knew her that well but we'd sort of hung out a few times in high school" There's been a lot of buzz around Nic Sheff's bestselling memoir TWEAK and for good reason, its un-put-downable. This candid, gritty and detaile......more
“Impossible to put down”
Chicago Tribune“Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.”
Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives“Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were.”
Publishers Weekly“Nic Sheff's powerful memoir of drug abuse and alcohol addiction is written in a brutally honest style that makes it difficult for anyone else to narrate. Happily, narrator Paul Michael Garcia delivers a strong and commanding reading that perfectly expresses the rawness of Sheff's most personal recollections…Endlessly memorable, Sheff's memoir is brought to life in a reading that captures the essence of his downfall.”
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