Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. 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. 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.
2005 by Augusten Burroughs (Author) 1,566 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 4.68 to buy Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 9.27 6 Used from 6.48 3 New from 31. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. Dry: Augusten Burroughs Paperback 10 Feb. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry - the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.
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