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Life's Work

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15 September 2022
304 pages
9781035005635
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Like the best memoirs, Life's Work is intimate, exquisitely observed, and intense. But unlike most—and what sets it apart—is the heartbreak it embodies, the finality it signals. This is David Milch's farewell, and it will rock you.
A heartrending cry from the horizon line of consciousness, a hilarious yarn of the truth-telling variety, and a brutal case history of addiction and self-destruction, written in the most gorgeously humane voice I’ve encountered in a work of nonfiction in a long while. I can think of few recent books that have pulsed with life this transparently, this powerfully
A wise, sly, hilarious, and poignant account of a life’s work in hard drugs and hard television