- Published: 29 February 2012
- ISBN: 9781448118342
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Leaving Dirty Jersey
A Crystal Meth Memoir
- Published: 29 February 2012
- ISBN: 9781448118342
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
If prose were a mind-altering substance, James Salant would be your neighbourhood pusher. Lord knows, the man will make an addict of you
Koren Zailckas, author of SMASHED: GROWING UP A DRUNK GIRL
Leaving Dirty Jersey is a harrowing, pitiful account of one guy's demise into full scale addiction and insanity ... Up there with Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries for drug rites of passage books
Blowback Magazine
Salant's gritty portrayal of his descent from all-American college boy to rehab-skiving hood rat hits an untapped vein, and he delivers a very readable hit
thelondonpaper
Like watching a car crash, the gruesome details - drug deals gone wrong, violence and seedy motels - make the book compulsive reading
Big Issue
Completely addictive ... brilliant
Word Magazine
Normally I hate to tell anyone what to do, or what to think, or read. But I honestly believe every parent should read this book. And every teenager on the verge of a drug trip should read it. And everyone else, too. It's that good, that important
Dava Sobel, author of LONGITUDE