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Author's Note from the print edition

James Frey
Read by Oliver Wyman

A searing story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky.

By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.

James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become—which he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.

An uncommon accounting of a life destroyed and reconstructed, and a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery, A Million Little Pieces marks the debut of a bold and talented literary voice.

PRAISE FOR THE AUDIO EDITION:

"Wyman’s reading of Frey’s terse, raw prose is ideal."
        —Publishers Weekly 

"A shatteringly good listen, A Million Little Pieces is brought to life by Oliver Wyman's searing performance. . . . Raw, graphic, intelligent, visceral, this work should be . . . nominated for something! A sobering piece, not to be missed." 
       —AudioFile

"Wyman sinks himself fully into the role, finding full expression for the larger-than-life emotions." 
      —The Herald-Sun

". . . a gripping audio . . . "
      —Library Bookwatch

"Wyman reads these stunningly brutal passages with urgency and understanding."
      —The Plain Dealer

Audiobook    Abridged; 10 hours on 8 CDs
ISBN 1-56511-778-6 (CD)

James Frey was born in Cleveland in 1969; he has since lived in six countries and ten states. He has worked as a film director, film producer, skateboard salesman, camp counselor, picture framer, bouncer, and hotel security guard. He is currently writing the screenplay for A Million Little Pieces. James lives in New York and has been sober for nine years.