A Million Little Pieces

James Frey

Apr 2003 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Oliver Wyman

About this audiobook

A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky.By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become-which he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.

Ratings and reviews

I read this book years ago when it first released. I found it to be intense and it kept me glued; however, it was revealed later to be embellished and some things and characters to be simply not true or real. I was completely disappointed in James Frey.

I finished the book hoping that it would redeem itself in the end but it didn't. Characters are likeable at the beginning but there's no real development.

Awesome. The ending is like a crascendo in a symphony.

About the author

James Frey is originally from Cleveland. He is the author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard. He lives in New York.