Portrait of an addict as a young man : a memoir

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Formatted Contents Note:	Scrapers -- Cheers -- First door -- Flight -- Bringing down the house -- Complicated theater -- Under control -- Morning -- Where -- Another door -- uptown -- Idiot wind -- Beginnings of the end -- Family reunion -- In the clear -- Where -- Love -- Blackout -- Shelter -- Just here -- Where -- The Jesus year -- Last door -- White Plains -- The hollow.
Summary, etc.:	The author chronicles the dark secret life he led when, despite building for himself a respectable career as a literary agent, he embraced crack cocaine; went on a two-month binge; and lost his job, his home, and all his money.