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This is a brilliantly written memoir of a unusual childhood and heroin addicted young adulthood by Jack Canfield's son
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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.
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Published in the US as Long Past Stopping, Freefall is Oran Canfield's thought provoking memoir of his unconventional childhood and his later descent into drug addiction.
As he points out early in the book, because both his parents were therapists, paid to sort out other people's problems (his father Jack Canfield wrote the worldwide self-help bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul), you would imagine that Oran Canfield would never have any problems of his own. As we learn in this book, unfortunately that is not how things turned out. Indeed this book will leave you considering whether his parents were to blame for his later drug problems.
His childhood was unusual to say the least. Never having a proper home, his early years saw him moving from place to place and school to school, meeting an odd variety of characters and having many strange experiences. These include teaching a girl with no hands how to juggle and the weeks he spent on a school exchange programme, helping a kindly but slightly crazed Mexican build a house.
Whilst these recollections are often very amusing, when the book moves onto his older years and he starts using heroin his story takes on a much darker edge. Reading about how his life goes into freefall before he finally hits rock bottom is both compulsive and informative, particularly if, like me, you have often wondered why people get addicted to drugs in the first place when the dangers are all too well known.
This is an entertaining and highly readable book.
As he points out early in the book, because both his parents were therapists, paid to sort out other people's problems (his father Jack Canfield wrote the worldwide self-help bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul), you would imagine that Oran Canfield would never have any problems of his own. As we learn in this book, unfortunately that is not how things turned out. Indeed this book will leave you considering whether his parents were to blame for his later drug problems.
His childhood was unusual to say the least. Never having a proper home, his early years saw him moving from place to place and school to school, meeting an odd variety of characters and having many strange experiences. These include teaching a girl with no hands how to juggle and the weeks he spent on a school exchange programme, helping a kindly but slightly crazed Mexican build a house.
Whilst these recollections are often very amusing, when the book moves onto his older years and he starts using heroin his story takes on a much darker edge. Reading about how his life goes into freefall before he finally hits rock bottom is both compulsive and informative, particularly if, like me, you have often wondered why people get addicted to drugs in the first place when the dangers are all too well known.
This is an entertaining and highly readable book.
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