Title: The gilded razor
Description: "Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author Sam Lansky. 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. 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 that introduces a powerful new voice to the confessional genre"--

"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling coming-of-age drug memoir from debut author Sam Lansky"--
Subjects: Gay men, Drug addiction, Teenagers, American Authors, Gay teenagers, Substance use, Treatment, Childhood and youth, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drug Dependence, Gay youth, Authors, american, Youth, united states, Youth, substance use, Authors, biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Personal Memoirs, Literary, SELF-HELP, Substance Abuse & Addictions, Drug Dependence
Places: United States
People: Sam Lansky
Time periods: 21st century