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Article: Just sticking to the facts ; Rather than produce an unreliable misery memoir, David Carr has carefully documented his own life to uncover all the worst details of being a crack addict, dealer and drunk
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story
of His Life.
His Own by David Carr (Simon & Schuster, [pounds]14.99
A LOT OF addiction and misery memoirs have now been exposed as
outright fakes. Love and Consequences by Margaret B Jones, for
example, purported to tell the first-hand story of a mixed-race
girl growing up among drug dealers and gang members in Los Angeles.
It was a complete fabrication.
James Frey won fame with a ridiculously overwritten memoir of
addiction and gruelling recovery, A Million Little Pieces. After
Oprah Winfrey challenged him on her show, he had to admit that much
of it was untrue.
These are drastic cases of deliberate deception, ...