Long way home / Cameron Douglas.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525520832
- 052552083X
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Biography | Douglas, C. D733 | Available | 33111009538485 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas--a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.
Cameron Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His parents are glamorous jet-setters, his father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. On the surface, his life seems golden. But by the age of thirty, he has taken a hellish dive- he's become a drug addict, a thief, and--after a DEA drug bust--a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison, with another five years added to his sentence while incarcerated. Eventually he will spend two years in solitary, where he manages, nonetheless, to hold fast to the brutal ethos of prison survival . . . until- he begins to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that has tormented him for years, and to prepare for what will be a profoundly challenging, but eventually deeply satisfying and successful, reentry into society at large.
Sparing no one in his sphere--least of all himself--Cameron Douglas gives us a raw and unstintingly honest recounting of his harrowing, remarkable, and, in the end, inspiring life story.
"A Borzoi Book."
2004: "Don't gaslight me" -- Mom -- Dad -- 2004: A consummate hose -- 1983: What about this guy? -- 1991: Thirteen -- 2005: Spin out -- 1993: Gooned -- 1977-1995: Mom and Dad -- 2006: More Cheeva -- 1995: King of the shits -- 1995-1996: The most troublesome Douglas -- 1996: The juvie archipelago -- 2006: Oblivion -- 2006: Logistics -- 1996: Booty juice -- 1997: Hands over your head -- 2007: Inspector Gadget -- 1998-2004: False spring -- 2008: A cascade of unfortunate events -- 2009: Yes it's really me -- 2009: Crazy legs -- 2010: Acquired situations narcissism -- 2010: Camp -- 2010: Cancer -- 2010-2011: Night runner -- 2011: Badge of courage -- 2012: One of the bad guys -- 2012: Hole time -- 2013: Notable inmates -- 2013: As a man thinketh -- 2014: The boy with the Nazi tattoo -- 2015: Orange isn't the new black -- 2016:Kashi vanilla Pepita -- 2017: Planning for the past.
Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that has tormented him for years, and prepare for what will be a profoundly challenging, but eventually deeply satisfying and successful re-entry into society at large. -- adapted from jacket