by John Moriarty The unforgiving yet ultimately liberating cycle of recovery from addiction of desperate attraction and triumphant avoidance is captured in freelance writer Moriarty's unsparing memoir. Writing with the passion and immediacy of a man who knows he might not have lived to tell his tale, the author, now in his mid-40s and living in Kansas City, Mo., conjures with accelerating vividness a long downward spiral. Over the years, drink, drugs and equally desperate and numbing gay male sex usually unprotected, occasionally anonymous, often lost to an alcoholic blackout take him to the edge of death itself. As with the recovery process, the sometimes exhausting pile-on of repetitious prose demands endurance.
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