The Other Great Depression: How I'm overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and dysfunctions and finding a spiritual (sometimes) life
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Other Great Depression: How I'm overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and dysfunctions and finding a spiritual (sometimes) life
By (Author) Richard Lewis
PublicAffairs,U.S.
PublicAffairs,U.S.
11th March 2008
11th March 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual actors and performers
Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems
791.092
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 207mm, Height 138mm, Spine 18mm
344g
Description
At the age of 44, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER, toxic with alcohol, and hallucinating from excess cocaine use. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and inspired his best material had, it seemed, turned on him. How he got there, how he finally got on the road to recovery, and how he copes with being Richard Lewis sober on a daily basis are the subjects of this very funny, deeply honest, inspiring, but very untreacly book. USA Today called it candid and inspirational...A journey through Lewis personal Inferno to eventual salvation.
Reviews
"Imagine my surprise when I realized soon after starting this book that the one person to whom I had confided my deepest and most intimate thoughts was a raging alcoholic. I now know more about him than I do about me. A most unfortunate development." Larry David"
Author Bio
Richard Lewis is now appearing in the sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm and traveling nationwide on his "Misery Loves Company Stand-up Tour." He lives in Los Angeles.
