The Night of the Gun
"In one sense, my story is a common one, a white boy misdemeanant who lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding and a support group that will go unnamed. But if the whole truth is told, it does not end there. "The book will be...
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"In one sense, my story is a common one, a white boy misdemeanant who lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding and a support group that will go unnamed. But if the whole truth is told, it does not end there. "The book will be fundamentally different than a tell-all, or more commonly, tell-most. It will be a rigorously clear-eyed reported memoir in which the process of discovery will be part of the narrative motor...For instance, my brother asked if I was going to give him credit for bailing me out after I was arrested for possession of pot as an 18-yr.-old in a Wisconsin state park. I had not even remembered the incident. "You remember the story you can live with, not the one that happened."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416541523 (1416541527)
Publish date: August 5th 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Journalism,
Crime,
Biography Memoir,
True Crime,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
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