{"product_id":"gilded-razor-a-book-club-recommendation","title":"Gilded Razor: A Book Club Recommendation!","description":"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a \"powerful addition to the literature of active addiction and recovery\" (New York Times bestselling author Bill Clegg) from Sam Lansky.The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life that New York Times bestselling author George Hodgman called \"virtuosic.\" By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed from the glittering streets of Manhattan, to a wilderness boot camp in Utah, to a psych ward in New Orleans, he only found more opportunities to create chaos--until finally, he began to face himself. In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, The Gilded Razor is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism and \"one of the best portraits about the implacable power of addiction\" (Susan Cheever, bestselling author of Drinking in America).","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51172739350839,"sku":"9781476776156","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_200710cf-6801-4261-a832-073c1241f2a5.jpg?v=1759749343","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/gilded-razor-a-book-club-recommendation","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}