Number 1 New York Times bestseller With a new afterwordNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.” — Anne Lamott “‘When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for … us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others.’ That’s ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing.” — Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.
“Filled with compelling anecdotes and important insights . . . An eye-opening memoir.” — Washington Post
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Take A Walk on The Wild Side: An examination of David Sheff’s Beautiful Boy
The Novel Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, is a sad true story, filled with hope and love. It’s about David’s son (Nic Sheff) who struggles with an addiction to methamphetamine drugs, and how David copes with all of emotions and thoughts through the unfortunate journey of his …
This book is so much more than a father memorising about his drug addict son. It shows the unconditional love that a father can have for his son, and how the power of never giving up can change the life of those people who surround you.
The book Beautiful Boy, starts straight from the beginning. The author David Sheff starts from when his son Nic …
Sheff is honest, articulate and brave in coming forward with his story about his son’s downward spiral into meth addiction and how he as a father not only learned to never give up on him, but also, to let him go in the end
As a parent of an adult daughter with a severe drug addiction this book mirrored so many of my husband and my emotions from the despair, guilt, stress and hopelessness to the realization that although we try to be as supportive as possible we cannot cure her. With that comes the acceptance that she will from time to time relapse and learning to …
Extremely well written and insightful look at the tragedy of drug addiction.
It was frightening what can happen to our innocent, intelligent youth and their families.
I absolutely loved this book! With a few addicts in my life, it was refreshing to read a book written from the family member’s point of view. It showed that I wasn’t the only one feeling that way! I definitely recommend this book, as well as both books by Nic Sheff (Tweak and We All Fall Down).
Like the author I have learned more than I ever wanted to know about drugs and alcohol. It was so good to read a book that spoke to me like this one did. My daughter passed away due to complications from an addiction over two years ago and everything the author tells you in this book is true. Only someone who has walked in your shoes with an …
This book is an honestly wrought account of Mr. Sheff’s son’s drug addiction and the wrenching emotions it put him and his family through. It is not great literature, but it is well written and literate.
raw, honest, open
As a mother of four boys ages 15, 14, 12.5 and 7, the book rattled a fear at my core… that there are simply things I cannot protect my children from if they make certain choices. This honest portrayal from David Sheff was tragic and gripping, but the love story of a father for his son was absolutely beautiful as well.
From this heartbreaking and inspiring memoir, the father-son relationship that is reaching it’s limits and David’s love for his child, his “wonderful creation”, is truly undressing what goes on behind the doors of an American Dream family. What this memoir sets out to do is not only inform others of the rupture addiction can cause in …
A father’s journey through his son’s addiction. A work of nonfiction. This story was gut wrenching and heart warming and terrifying, and strong and weak, understandable and unfathomable, and it was about love and it was about hate.
I looked over constantly at my 6 year old son while reading this, thinking “You are not immune from this disease.” …
Beautiful Boy is a memoir written by David Sheff about his experiences as he tried to save his teenage son from drug addiction. Beautiful Boy was an incredibly informative reading experience for me personally. This book may do a better job at capturing the attention of readers who are parents themselves or have a family member or friend who …