Luke Williams
The Ice Age
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Journalist Luke Williams had moved into a house with an old friend and meth dealer in outer-suburban Melbourne researching addiction to crystal methamphetamine when he accidentally became addicted to it himself. Over the next three months, he descended into psychosis.He believed his parents were trying to poison him, that a pedophile ring was being run from the local café and thought he was bound to become a rap star. He became transfixed with violent fantasy and ended up living on the streets. After that, he moved into Australia's then most notorious boarding house The Gatwick.Ice Age tells the story of Luke's fall as well as the fate of two…
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Journalist Luke Williams had moved into a house with an old friend and meth dealer in outer-suburban Melbourne researching addiction to crystal methamphetamine when he accidentally became addicted to it himself. Over the next three months, he descended into psychosis.He believed his parents were trying to poison him, that a pedophile ring was being run from the local café and thought he was bound to become a rap star. He became transfixed with violent fantasy and ended up living on the streets. After that, he moved into Australia's then most notorious boarding house The Gatwick.Ice Age tells the story of Luke's fall as well as the fate of two other addicts - Smithy and Beck (both parents of young children) while simultaneously explaining how and why crystal meth has become a problem in Australia and all over the western world.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-393-85272-8
- EAN: 9781393852728
- Produktnummer: 32643778
- Verlag: Luke Williams
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 434 KB
Über den Autor
uke Williams is a journalist and two-time Walkley nominee. His first book The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal-Meth Addiction was nominated for both a Walkley and the Nib Waverley Literary Prize. His work has been published in Vice, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The I-Paper (UK), The Sun (UK), The Daily Star (UK), Good Weekend, Good Reading, The Saturday Paper, The Daily Mail, The Adelaide Advertiser, Crikey, Triple J magazine, The Weekend Australian, Mamamia and Eureka Street. In 2013 he was nominated for a Human Rights Media Award for a long-form investigative piece in The Global Mail. A series of popular travel articles he wrote for news.com.au last year has been subsequently re-published in France, India, Brazil, Romania, Vietnam, Nigeria, Ghana and the UK.
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