A Million Little Pieces

From the get-go, [Frey's] book sets itself a part, its narrative unspooling in short, unindented paragraphs and barely punctuated sentences whose spare, deadpan language belies the horror of what he's describing - a meltdown dispatched in telegrams. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> One of the best stories of transformation I've ever read. . . . Anyone who has ever felt broken and wished for a better life will find inspiration in Frey's story. This won't be the last we'll hear of him. -- People <br> A ripping, gripping read. It's a staggeringly sober book whose stylistic tics are well-suited to its subject matter, and a finger in the eye of the culture of complaint . . . Engrossing. -- Philadelphia Inquirer <br> A frenzied, electrifying description of the experience. - The New Yorker <br> We finish A Million Little Pieces like miners lifted out of a collapsed shaft: exhausted, blackened, oxygen-starved, but alive, thrillingly, amazingly alive. -Minneapolis Star-Tribune <br> One of the most compelling books of the year... Incredibly bold...Somehow accomplishes what three decades' worth of cheesy public service announcements and after-school specials have failed to do: depict hard-core drug addiction as the self-inflicted apocalypsethat it is. - The New York Post <br> Thoroughly engrossing . . . Hard-bitten existentialism bristles on every page . . . Frey's prose is muscular and tough, ideal for conveying extreme physical anguish and steely determination. -Entertainment Weekly <br> Incredible... Mesmerizing...Heart-rending. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution <br> A rising literary star... has birthed a poetic account of his recovery. [A Million Little Pieces is] stark... disturbing... rife with raw emotion... - Chicago Sun-Times <br> Frey will probably be hailed in turn as the voice of a generation. - Elle Magazine <br> We can admire Frey for his fierceness, his extremity, his solitary virtue, the angry ethics of his barroom tribe, and his victory over his furies... A compelling book. - New York Magazine <br> An intimate, vivid and heartfelt memoir. Can Frey be the greatest writer of his generation? Maybe. - New York Press <br> Incredible... A ferociously compelling memoir. -Cleveland Plain Dealer <br> Insistent as it is demanding... A story that cuts to the nerve of addiction by clank-clank-clanking through the skull ofthe addicted... A critical milestone in modern literature. - Orlando Weekly <br> At once devastatingly bleak and heartbreakingly hopeful. . . . Frey somehow manages to make his step-by-step walk through recovery compelling. - Charlotte Observer <br> A stark, direct and graphic documentation of the rehabilitation process . . . The strength of the book comes from the truth of the experience. - The Oregonian <br> A virtual addiction itself, viscerally affecting . . . Compulsively readable. - City Paper (Washington, DC) <br> Powerful . . . haunting . . . addictive . . . A beautiful story of recovery and reconciliation. - Iowa City Press-Citizen <br> An exhilarating read . . . Frey's intense, punchy prose renders his experiences with electrifying immediacy. - Time Out New York <br> Describes the hopelessness and the inability to stop with precision . . . As anyone who has ever spent time in a rehab can testify, . . . he gets that down too. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch <br> Frey comes on like the world's first recovering-addict hero. . . . [His] criticism of the twelve-step philosophy is provocative and his story undeniably compelling. - GQ <br> [A] gruesomelyabsorbing account, told in stripped-down, staccato prose. - Details <br> Frey has devised a rolling, pulsating style that really moves . . . undeniably striking. . . . A fierce and honorable work that refuses to glamorize [the] author's addiction or his thorny personality. . . . A book that makes other recovery memoirs look, well, a little pussy-ass. - Salon