The Gilded Razor: A Memoir
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The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life that New York Times bestselling author George Hodgman called "virtuosic." 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.
In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, The Gilded Razor is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism and "one of the best portraits about the implacable power of addiction" (Susan Cheever, bestselling author of Drinking in America).
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Sam Lansky. (2016). The Gilded Razor: A Memoir. Gallery Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sam Lansky. 2016. The Gilded Razor: A Memoir. Gallery Books.
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In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, The Gilded Razor is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism and "one of the best portraits about the implacable power of addiction" (Susan Cheever, bestselling author of Drinking in America). - sortTitle
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Privileged, gay, drug-using, self-loathing teenager Lansky (currently a writer and editor at TIME) chose to be a high-school senior in New York City, living with his newly divorced father rather than staying with his mother in his hometown, Portland, Oregon. Lansky's memoir of that year and his first few months in college is unstintingly honest about his sexual activities, his rampant drug use, his continual warping of the truth to make himself likable to the new people he met. His beleaguered parents (and dad's new girlfriend) do their best, eventually paying to send the unrepentant, sick teen into several different rehab programs, fascinatingly depicted here and showing the young Lansky's calmly selfish language, thoughts, and actions. In this fraught and frightening telling, there's unbounded behavior on all levels, and Lansky ingests nearly every drug he can think of (many of which he spews back out again). There are moments of levity here and goodness, as well, but the best news is that Lansky ultimately wants to find his way back to normalcy. Readers will cheer him on.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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