Título: It's Hard for Me to Live with Me
Autor: Rex Chapman
Sinopse: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction. He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky, he scored over 1,000 points, led the Wildcats to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and was nicknamed King Rex. The first player ever drafted by the Charlotte Hornets, he spent twelve seasons in the NBA, dazzling in dunk contests and sinking one of the most memorable buzzer-beaters in league history. But by the end of his career, Rex Chapman was harboring a destructive secret. Years before Americas opioid crisis would become national news, Chapman developed a dependency on Vicodin and Oxycontin, ultimately ingesting fifty painkillers a day. In addition, he developed a severe gambling addiction, once nearly losing $400,000 at a Las Vegas blackjack table. All this would cost him his family as well as most of the $40 million fortune hed made in basketball, leaving him to live in his car and shoplift to support his addictions. Only when he was arrestedand his mugshot made national newsdid he finally commit to getting clean. In Its Hard for Me to Live With Me, Chapmanwho has amassed millions of social media followers for his relatable and uplifting poststells the story of his addiction and recovery in unflinching detail. With equal frankness, he describes his history with depression; the racism he witnessed growing up and how that shaped his outspokenness on matters of social justice; and his complex and volatile relationship with his father, also a former professional basketball player. Cowritten with New York Times bestselling author Seth Davis, Chapmans memoir is an equally devastating and inspiring story about the human struggle for self-acceptance.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me”, de Rex Chapman, publicado pela editora Simon and Schuster, em 2024 e com 272 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Simon and Schuster
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 198219779X
ISBN13: 9781982197797
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