{"product_id":"dead-writers-in-rehab","title":"Dead Writers in Rehab","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe only thing worse than waking up with the hangover from hell is waking up with a hangover \u003cem\u003ein \u003c\/em\u003ehell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"b16e6db9-c0d0-e058-3468-b11390a1f46d\"]' data-w-id=\"b16e6db9-c0d0-e058-3468-b11390a1f46d\"\u003eWhen literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he’s been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"85d39b73-0c16-4243-2fa1-e5eeaae912b4\"]' data-w-id=\"85d39b73-0c16-4243-2fa1-e5eeaae912b4\"\u003eBut he soon realises there’s something a bit different about this place after he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"6f3be71b-af8c-0595-a2ae-1a6013c7e1ca\"]' data-w-id=\"6f3be71b-af8c-0595-a2ae-1a6013c7e1ca\"\u003eIs Foster dead? Has his less-than-saintly existence finally caught up with him? After an acrimonious group therapy session with Hunter S. Thompson, Colette, William Burroughs, and Coleridge, it seems pretty likely. But he still \u003cem data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"19748619-f814-f6f3-87a7-349be90fe0e8\"]' data-w-id=\"19748619-f814-f6f3-87a7-349be90fe0e8\"\u003efeels\u003c\/em\u003e alive, especially after an up-close and personal one-on-one session with Dorothy Parker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"a7dec48b-c8ae-7ba8-b347-adbd21142c2a\"]' data-w-id=\"a7dec48b-c8ae-7ba8-b347-adbd21142c2a\"\u003eWhen he discovers that the two enigmatic doctors who run the institution are being torn apart by a thwarted love affair, he and the other writers must work together to save something that, for once, is bigger than their own gigantic egos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"78420972-9382-4945-2881-8f52e49adb65\"]' data-w-id=\"78420972-9382-4945-2881-8f52e49adb65\"\u003eThis is a love story. It’s for anyone who loves writing and writers. It’s also a story about the strange and terrible love affair between creativity and addiction, told by a charming, selfish bastard who finally confronts his demons in a place that’s part Priory, part Purgatory, and where the wildest fiction can tell the soberest truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"78420972-9382-4945-2881-8f52e49adb65\"]' data-w-id=\"78420972-9382-4945-2881-8f52e49adb65\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It is dark, dirty, grim and confusing – in a very good way. It’s also warm, humane, funny and mischievous’ \u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Hardy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A hilarious book that starts with a rather weird premise about the afterlife and takes it to brilliant, eventually emotionally wrecking places. It is almost indescribably good’ \u003cstrong\u003eElliott Downing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Ambitious and entertaining in every sense. Just fabulous. One of the funniest books I have read in a long time’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Last World Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"78420972-9382-4945-2881-8f52e49adb65\"]' data-w-id=\"78420972-9382-4945-2881-8f52e49adb65\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 384pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Lightning Books (May 2024)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: 9781785634000\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42624501678277,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/Screenshot2023-12-19at13.35.02.png?v=1702994824","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/dead-writers-in-rehab","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}