A Million Little Pieces - James Frey [206]
Warren fell off the back of a fishing boat in Florida while he was drunk. His body has never been recovered.
The Bald Man started drinking eight weeks after he returned home. His Wife threw him out of their house and his whereabouts are unknown.
Bobby was found dead in New Jersey. He had been shot in the back of the head.
John was caught carrying fourteen ounces of cocaine in San Francisco. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at San Quentin State Penitentiary in California.
Ed was beaten to death in a Bar fight in Detroit.
Ted was captured by Authorities in Mississippi. He is serving a life term without the possibility of parole at Angola State Farm in Louisiana.
Matty was shot and killed outside of a Crackhouse in Minneapolis.
Miles is alive and well and continues to serve as a Judge. He is still married, had a second Child, a Daughter named Ella, and he has never relapsed.
Leonard returned to Las Vegas and retired. He subsequently died from complications due to AIDS. He was sober until he died. He never relapsed.
Lilly committed suicide by hanging in a Halfway House in Chicago. Her Grandmother had passed away two days earlier. She was found the morning James was released from jail, and it is believed that she was sober until she died.
Lincoln still works at the Clinic.
Ken still works at the Clinic.
Hank and Joanne got married. Both still work at the Clinic.
James has never relapsed.
Acknowledgments
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Thank you Mom and Dad for everything, thank you Mom and Dad. Thank you Brother Bob and Sister-in-Law Laura. Thank you Maya, I love you Dearest Maya. Thank you Kassie Evashevski. Thank you Sean McDonald. Thank you Nan Talese. Thank you David Krintzman. Thank you Preacher and Bella my little Friends. Thank you Stuart Hawkins, Elizabeth Sosnow, Kevin Yorn, Amar Douglas Rao, Michael Craven, Quinn Yancey, Christian Yancey, Ingrid Sisson, John Von Brachel, Helen Motley, Jean Joseph Jr., Joshua Dorfman, Colleen Silva, Eben Strousse, Chris Wardwell. Thank you Theo, Rigo, Jose and the Boys at the Coffee Shop on the corner. Thank you Phillip Morris. Thank you Andrew Barash and Keith Bray. Thank you Kirk, Julie, Kevin. Thank you Lilly, Leonard, Miles, I love you and I thank you.
acclaim for james frey’s
“A frenzied, electrifying description of the experience.”
—The New Yorker
“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
“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 apocalypse that it is.”
—New York Post
“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
“Incredible…. Mesmerizing…. Heart-rending.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“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
“Frey will probably be hailed in turn as the voice of a generation.”
—Elle
“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
“An intimate, vivid and heartfelt memoir. Can Frey be the greatest writer of his generation? Maybe.”
—New York Press
“Incredible…. A ferociously compelling memoir.”
—The Plain Dealer
“Insistent as it is demanding…. A story that cuts to the nerve of addiction by clank-clank-clanking through the skull of the addicted…. A critical milestone in modern literature.”
—Orlando Weekly