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“There are sections in this one that stand out with haunting clarity…and tells it all with a bravery that is both heartbreaking and quite gorgeous.”
— Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“His journey is…deeply relatable for others living with addiction.”
— USA Today
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“Tears the tabloid face off the story about an American family that has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.”
— New York Times
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“Beautiful Things stands out for its raw truths…Maybe America has a first son’s story of addiction to help it finally confront this deep problem that has haunted so many families across the nation.”
— Time
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“Few have been so honest about their most humiliating moments and open about the hard, slow work of healing and reconciliation.”
— GQ
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“A heart-rending but surprisingly tender account of one man’s remarkable journey.”
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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'A beautiful book by Biden. It is a sharply written account of what it is like to be at the same time enormously privileged and utterly wretched.'
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'Beautiful Things is so concise, so unflinching and propulsive, that outside of turning the pages and occasionally picking my jaw off the ground, I didn’t move between the first page and the last.'
— Dave Eggers
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'Hunter writes honestly and with courage about the collapse of his marriage, hurting his father, squandering cash and going on a “crack-fuelled, cross-country odyssey."'
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'With disarming humility, Hunter’s unflinching account lays bare both the sustaining power and hard limits of love and family.'
— Bill Clegg
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'Mesmerising. A sizzling mess of grief, addiction, self-justification and misdirection. It’s admirable – and also abominable.’
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'Hunter Biden writes beautifully of almost unsurvivable loss, and the amazing grace of family love. He writes of his savage alcoholism and addiction with rare honesty, of his recovery with stunned gratitude, of broken hearts, resurrection, beautiful things.’
— Anne Lamott
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Devastating loss, an all-consuming crack addiction and what he really thinks of his father Joe – Hunter Biden doesn’t hold back.’
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'Biden transforms the Hollywood hills into a gothic wilderness, a suburb of hell where coyotes howl and nocturnal birds screech maledictions.’
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A moving addiction memoir in its reflections on pain and grief, both poignant and sad.’
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