"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling coming-of-age drug memoir from debut author Sam Lansky"--
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<b>Sharply funny and compulsively readable,<i> The Gilded Razor</i> is a “powerful addition to the literature of active addiction and recovery” (<i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Bill Clegg) from Sam Lansky.</b><br><br><i>The Gilded Razor</i> is the true story of a double life that <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author George Hodgman called “virtuosic.” By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed from the glittering streets of Manhattan, to a wilderness boot camp in Utah, to a psych ward in New Orleans, he only found more opportunities to create chaos—until finally, he began to face himself.<br> <br> In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, <i>The Gilded Razor</i> is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism and “one of the best portraits about the implacable power of addiction” (Susan Cheever, bestselling author of <i>Drinking in America</i>).
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