Freefall The Strange True Life Growing Up Adventures of Oran Canfield

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Publisher's Synopsis

Whether he was performing the circus as a reluctant child juggler, living in a punk rock commune or staying with a coke-addled cop in Mexico on a school exchange program, Oran Canfield never had a 'normal' childhood.

After being abandoned as a baby by his motivational guru father (Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books) Oran spent time with a succession of friends, relatives, teachers, commune dwellers, socialist rebels and circus clowns. But Oran's life only truly entered freefall when he became addicted to heroin at the age of twenty-three. His parents are again united in their desire to make him quit, but Oran is convinced that he is beyond all help ...

Freefall is Oran's remarkably honest, often hilarious and compulsively readable memoir, which shows that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to start living life fully, and for yourself.

Book information

ISBN: 9780091924553
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Imprint: Ebury Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.293092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 322
Weight: 358g
Height: 215mm
Width: 136mm
Spine width: 25mm