[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:40:17 -0500
Hi, everyone.
I have just submitted Dry: A memoir by Augusten Burroughs to the step one page.
Common scannos have been removed, and page breaks and chapter headings have
been protected. Here is the synopsis.
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the
street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice
suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had
to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary
person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud,
distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only
hide
so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his
employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with
Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent
lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine
himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself
in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has
to return to his same drunken Manhattan life-and live it sober. What follows is
a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real.
Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.
Shannon
I am only one; but still I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do
something. And, because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the
something I can do.
Everet Edward Hale
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