293 pages

English language

Published Jan. 14, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-250-03440-3
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OCLC Number:
826899282

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You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much forso long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken …

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Subjects

  • American Novelists
  • Advertising agencies
  • Social life and customs
  • Copy writers
  • Alcohol use
  • Biography

Places

  • United States
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • New York (State)
  • New York