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Love Junkie

Love Junkie

by RachelResnick (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $3.21
Synopsis

Love Junkie is the story of Rachel Resnick's dangerous addiction to sex and love. An addiction that has cost her in horrible ways throughout the course of her life - from the time she rear-ended a family van on the freeway because she was obsessively speed-dialing her lover's phone, to when she blew the deadline on her first major newspaper assignment. Love Junkie charts Rachel Resnick's harrowing amotional journey from addiction to intimacy, from despair to hope, and the men - the worst kind of men - who accompanied her on it. It is a groundbreaking and compulsively readable memoir that cracks open one of the more elusive and pervasive addictions of our time. Written with raw humour and unflinching honesty, it is the story of coming to terms with your past in order to be able to map out a different kind of future.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 04 Jan 2010
ISBN 10: 1408801175
ISBN 13: 9781408801178
Book Overview: This is a thrilling combination of being highly topical in today's love-obsessed, highly sexualised environment and a deeply personal account laying bare a new, dark addiction beyond drink and drugs. A beautifully written, a moving and spare tale Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and and received a huge amount of praise from the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender and Joy Nicholson Publishing in conjuction with Bloomsbury USA, with joint campaigns to launch this exciting author

Media Reviews
'Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty, this is a powerful and beautiful memoir' Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir! 'Love Junkie is so alive, it reads as though Rachel Resnick sliced open her heart, dipped in her pen, and chronicled her life of carnal and romantic madness in an ambulance with a bed in it. The result is a memoir of flesh and redemption, told with scorching intensity and clear-eyed, universal truth a fearless, nasty, affectionate, weirdly spiritual, sex-soaked, smart and un-putdownable Valentine from hell' Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, Perv and I, Fatty 'Reading Love Junkie is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest' Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander 'Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be' Samantha Dunn, author of Failing Paris
Author Bio
Rachel Resnick's first book, Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick was an Los Angeles Times bestseller. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity profile stories nationally, and is a contributing editor at Tin House magazine. Her essays have been included in numerous collections such as Damage Control and The Dictionary of Failed Relationships. She currently teaches on UCLA's Extension Writers' Program.