Ninety Days
by Bill Clegg
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75%
Critic Reviews: 8
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78%
Reader Ratings: 50
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Synopsis
The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the seemingly unshakably sober Asa. At first, the support is not... more
About Bill Clegg
Published: April 10, 2012 by Hachette Book Group
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs. Non-fiction. 208 pages
- All Critics: 8
- Positive: 6
- Negative: 2
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San Francisco Chronicle | 15 Apr 2012
Getting to 90 days is hard work, which translates to tough reading, a mix of grandiosity and abjection.
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PopMatters | 19 Apr 2012
...this bleak meditation on human frailty serves as a much-needed reminder that as easy as it is to stumble, there will always be a pair of hands that have been bruised just as badly waiting to pull us back up and straighten us out.
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Lambda Literary | 8 May 2012
That last chapter is so powerful and so well written that I only wish it had been the beginning of the book and only gotten better from there.
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Vogue | 9 Apr 2012
Relationships, rather than high drama, are the real focus of Ninety Days, and as a result there is a tenderness at its heart that balances out the navel-gazing intrinsic to the genre.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Feb 2012
A gritty, lyrical and potent portrait of what it really means to be addicted.
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Book Reporter
Whatever you know about addictions, NINETY DAYS will broaden your knowledge and understanding.
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The Rumpus | 10 May 2012
Ninety Days pays off for writer and reader; it is worth hanging in there until the end.
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Reviews by Cole | 10 Apr 2012
While Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery wasn’t a perfect book, it was definitely a nice change of pace from what I normally read.
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