Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MQ6AK56 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 537 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the evenings, she can be found taking ballet classes she has no business attending but does anyway. Reckless Years is her second book. . Heather Chaplin is a writer living in Brooklyn. She’s written about all kinds of things in her journalism career and is the founding director of the Journalism + Design program at The New School
On her own, she finds herself intoxicatingly free, pursuing adventure, and juggling romance on two continents in multiple cities. Pulled from Chaplin’s own diaries, Reckless Years is a raw, propulsive debut: unfailingly profound and impossible to put down.. She contemplates the meaning of life; she falls for a handsome Irishman.But as the adventures progress, Chaplin’s own reckless choices send her spiraling downward—and toward a reckoning she’s avoided all her life. In this page-turning memoir, a woman tries to reinvent her life after divorce and discovers that sometimes finding yourself is not all it’s cracked up to be.Trapped in a dissatisfying marriage for nearly a decade, New Yo
It's also an instant classic.”—Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE: A Memoir “Shocking, searingly honest, disturbing, brilliantly written. “Reckless Years is a hair raising, lyrical, page turning account of Heather Chaplin's ride into adulthood. Thank God. It would be awful if a writer this talented hadn’t made it.”—Delia Ephron, author of SIRACUSA "Reckless Years is a stunningly forensic account of the end of a
carilynp said A DIARY OF LOVE AND MADNESS with no expectations. I started reading Heather Chaplin’s memoir RECKLESS YEARS: A DIARY OF LOVE AND MADNESS with no expectations. I was literally blown away. If you know me and know what I like to read, I am a big memoir reader. The more intense the better. Chaplin’s life story and experience is no exception. She starts out w. Heather Chaplin is a masterful storyteller. Heather Chaplin is a masterful storyteller. I could not put this book down. RECKLESS YEARS is deeply moving. I laughed and I cried. Not just cute, quiet little teardrops. At times, I couldn't see through my tears and I would have to take a break from weeping. Other times, SEVERAL other times I laughed out loud so lou. JuneC said What a story!. My God—what a story! A beautifully written, devastatingly honest memoir that I found so fascinating I stayed up most of the night reading it. I had to find out what happened as love and hate, hope and despair—along with sexy, crazy, hopelessly wrong men—propel the author to the edge of madness and b