Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MQ6AK56 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 561 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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On her own, she finds herself intoxicatingly free, pursuing adventure, and juggling romance on two continents in multiple cities. 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 York journalist Heather Chaplin finally summons the courage to leave. Pulled from Chaplin’s own diaries, Reckless Years is a raw, propulsive debut: unfailingly profound and impossible to put down.
“Reckless Years is a hair raising, lyrical, page turning account of Heather Chaplin's ride into adulthood. It's also an instant classic.”—Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE: A Memoir “Shocking, searingly honest, disturbing, brilliantly written. Reading this memoir is like being in a car speeding into an explosion and miraculously coming out the other side. 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 marriage and its aftermath, which combines the honesty of memoir with the urgency of good fiction and a dry wit that, for all the darkness of the story, makes Chaplin a joy to spend time with."—Emma Brockes, author of SHE LEFT ME THE GUN
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 excep. "Heather Chaplin is a masterful storyteller." according to Ardith N.. 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 l. 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
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. Heather Chaplin is a writer living in Brooklyn. . In the evenings, she can be found taking ballet classes she has no business attending but does anyway. Reckless Years is her second book