Freefall

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This is a brilliantly written memoir of a unusual childhood and heroin addicted young adulthood by Jack Canfield's son Whether he was performing the circus as a reluctant child juggler, living in a punk rock commune or staying with a coke-addled cop in Mexico on a school exchange program, Oran Canfield never had a 'normal' childhood.After being abandoned as a baby by his motivational guru father (Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books) Oran spent time with a succession of friends, relatives, teachers, commune dwellers, socialist rebels and circus clowns. But Oran's life only truly entered freefall when he became addicted to heroin at the age of twenty-three. His parents are again united in their desire to make him quit, but Oran is convinced that he is beyond all help ...Freefall is Oran's remarkably honest, often hilarious and compulsively readable memoir, which shows that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to start living life fully, and for yourself.

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Humorous ... devoid of self-pity ... entertaining * Guardian *
Canfield tells a tough life with the rueful recall and black good humour of a survivor now happy with himself * The Times *
Far more entertaining than your average heroin memoir * Independent on Sunday *

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Oran Canfield is the son of Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. He has held jobs as a bike messenger, piano restorer, housecleaner and limo driver. Early in 2000, after seven separate stints in rehab, he got clean off drugs after attending an experimental treatment centre in the Caribbean islands. He lives in New York, and works as a musician and freelance art handler.