The Drop
How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery
In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.Addiction is arguably the dominant feature of contemporary life: sex, gambling, exercise, eating, shopping, Internet use—there's virtually no pleasurable activity that can't morph into a destructive obsession. For Americans under the age of fifty-five, the leading cause of death is drug overdose. But there is another side of addiction.In some instances, the very…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-296593-6
- EAN: 9780062965936
- Produktnummer: 34737309
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Über den Autor
Thad Ziolkowski is the author of Our Son the Arson, a collection of poems, and a memoir, On a Wave, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003. In 2008, he was awarded a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure and Index. He is Associate Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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