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Title details for The Night of the Gun by David Carr - Available

The Night of the Gun

A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.

by David Carr
Charles Leggett
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From David Carr (1956–2015), the "undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist" (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called "a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope."
Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr's investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing—and, in the end, more miraculous—than he allowed himself to remember.

Fierce, gritty, and remarkable, The Night of the Gun is "an odyssey you'll find hard to forget" (People).

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  • Release date

    August 5, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780743580496
      • File size: 385768 KB
      • Duration: 13:23:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Author and NEW YORK TIMES journalist David Carr opens up to reveal his drug-addicted past in a memoir that will surprise those who know a different side of him through his newspaper columns. Rather than divulging his life story in one fell swoop, Carr opts to subject himself to his own investigative journalism to gain a better understanding of his earlier troubled life. Narrator Charles Leggett delivers a simmering performance. His unabashed tone is revealing to no end, almost as if he is being interrogated and has nothing left to lose. The shock value of Carr's story is all the more effective because of Leggett's believable performance. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 16, 2008
      An intriguing premise informs Carr's memoir of drug addiction—he went back to his hometown of Minneapolis and interviewed the friends, lovers and family members who witnessed his downfall. A successful, albeit hard-partying, journalist, Carr developed a taste for coke that led him to smoke and shoot the drug. At the height of his use in the late 1980s, his similarly addicted girlfriend gave birth to twin daughters. Carr, now a New York Times
      columnist, gives both the lowlights of his addiction (the fights, binges and arrests) as well as the painstaking reconstruction of his life. Soon after he quit drugs, he was thrown for another loop when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Unfortunately, the book is less a real investigation of his life than an anecdotal chronicle of wild behavior. What's more, his clinical approach (he videotaped all his interviews), meant to create context, sometimes distances readers from it. By turns self-consciously prurient and intentionally vague, Carr tends to jump back and forth in time within the narrative, leaving the book strangely incoherent.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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