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| Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction | 
| Author: David Sheff
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 526
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 326
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0618683356
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.299
EAN: 9780618683352
ASIN: 0618683356
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautiful Boy August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great Book! New book so product was in perfect shape. Delivery quick. This book is a wonderful story about addiction and a parents journey. Recommend this book for all who have travelled down this road!!
 Beautiful boy August 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Another wonderful book that I have recommended to several members of our Family Annyomous group. Very enlighting as to what the addict goes through and how his family tried to help him. Gives hope to family members of addicts. Something we don't always have much of.
 Love? Sacrifice? Principle? August 12, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I must admit, I couldn't get past the first twenty pages. So far, the author has written of the years of self-incrimination he's suffered, but ultimately he reaches the conclusion that we all must make our own life and death decisions, and he chooses life. Then, he begins to chronicle his experience: how having their first child complicates his relationship with his first wife, the child's mother, so he has an affair. At the first counseling session, he pronounces the marriage over. The divorce gets messy, and an arbitrator decides that the child should stay with the father in San Francisco except for holidays and the summer, when he'll be shuffled off to Mom in LA. At five, the child is flying alone. That's as far as I could go. Thank goodness for professionals like the arbitrator who acts in a child's interest by tearing his life in two, and most of all for the father who has never grasped that love means sacrifice. Another self-interested memoir about the "life struggles" of California's whine and cheese set? No thanks. I took it back to the library in favor of a recent biography of Washington. I'll wager the author wouldn't have the fortitude to survive a day in Washington's shoes. And Washington is ennobled by his adherence to principles, which as far as the author appears to know, are the people who run the public schools.
 A moving and compassionate tale of a father's love August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How painful this must have been to write, yet cathartic to do at the same time. This journey is incredibly thought-povoking and heart-breaking, especially for parents. The pain of addiction that can shatter a family is made real and vivid in this tale of love and courage. An insightful read that takes a difficult decision and provokes the reader to contemplate what he would do in those situations. Highly moving; hard to put down.
true definition of honesty August 5, 2008
if you really want to read an all out honest book....this is it!....Sheff could not have been any more real than he was on this book....it is beautiful written....i am so glad i read this book....it was totally worth my time.
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