Bibliograph

The gilded razor, a memoir, Sam Lansky

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The gilded razor, a memoir, Sam Lansky

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The gilded razor

Responsibility statement

Sam Lansky

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

'The gilded razor' is the true story of a double life. By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed from the glittering streets of Manhattan, to a wilderness boot camp in Utah, to a psych ward in New Orleans, he only found more opportunities to create chaos--until finally, he began to face himself

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