{"product_id":"night-of-the-gun-a-reporter-investigates-the-darkest-story-of-his-life-his-own","title":"Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNight of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Carr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781416541523\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1st Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Hardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Volumes: \u003c\/b\u003e2\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eDo we remember only the stories we can live with?\u003cp\u003eThe 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. Over the course of the book, he digs his way through a past that continues to evolve as he reports it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat long-ago night he was so out of his mind that his best friend had to pull a gun on him to make him go away? A visit to the friend twenty years later reveals that Carr was pointing the gun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis lucrative side business as a cocaine dealer? Not all that lucrative, as it turned out, and filled with peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis belief that after his twins were born, he quickly sobered up to become a parent? Nice story, if he could prove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe notion that he was an easy choice as a custodial parent once he finally was sober? His lawyer pulls out the old file and gently explains it was a little more complicated than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn one sense, the story of \"The Night of the Gun\" is a common one -- a white-boy misdemeanant lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding, and a support group that will go unnamed. But when the whole truth is told, it does not end there. After fourteen years -- or was it thirteen? -- Carr tried an experiment in social drinking. Double jeopardy turned out to be a game he did not play well. As a reporter and columnist at the nation's best newspaper, he prospered, but gained no more adeptness at mood-altering substances. He set out to become a nice suburban alcoholic and succeeded all too well, including two more arrests, one that included a night in jail wearing a tuxedo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFerocious and eloquent, courageous and bitingly funny, \"The Night of the Gun\" unravels the ways memory helps us not only create our lives, but survive them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. | David Carr | Hardcover | 9781416541523 | Used: Very Good | Memoir 1688284","offer_id":50805658386690,"sku":"1688284","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61g_xPqMDHL.jpg?v=1792436904","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/night-of-the-gun-a-reporter-investigates-the-darkest-story-of-his-life-his-own","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}