The Resource Halfway : a memoir, Tom Macher
Halfway : a memoir, Tom Macher
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The item Halfway : a memoir, Tom Macher represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Halfway : a memoir, Tom Macher represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality. In quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that Macher encounters a community of young men struggling to survive--outcasts and thieves, liars and ex-cons, men seeking redemption, men running from the past. As he moves further away from boyhood and embraces a hard-won sobriety, these men--the broken, the hardscrabble, the near gone--become his salvation. Macher captures the trials of sobriety--suicide, death, recovery--and the unusual beauty that forms in the bonds of those who suffer. In visceral, striking prose, he introduces the unforgettable characters he meets along the way, from a former child actor, a young teen struggling with schizophrenia, a tough-love addiction counselor, a sex-addicted social worker, to Matt O, who became Macher's loyal friend and wingman. Raw, disarming, frenetic, and subversive, Halfway is a brutally honest portrait of the world of down-and-out recovering alcoholics, and a story of how, in their darkest hour, these men create the bonds that form a family"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 273 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501112607
- Label
- Halfway : a memoir
- Title
- Halfway
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Tom Macher
- Subject
-
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography
- Macher, Tom, 1977-
- Men -- Alcohol use -- United States -- Biography
- Halfway houses -- United States
- Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality. In quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that Macher encounters a community of young men struggling to survive--outcasts and thieves, liars and ex-cons, men seeking redemption, men running from the past. As he moves further away from boyhood and embraces a hard-won sobriety, these men--the broken, the hardscrabble, the near gone--become his salvation. Macher captures the trials of sobriety--suicide, death, recovery--and the unusual beauty that forms in the bonds of those who suffer. In visceral, striking prose, he introduces the unforgettable characters he meets along the way, from a former child actor, a young teen struggling with schizophrenia, a tough-love addiction counselor, a sex-addicted social worker, to Matt O, who became Macher's loyal friend and wingman. Raw, disarming, frenetic, and subversive, Halfway is a brutally honest portrait of the world of down-and-out recovering alcoholics, and a story of how, in their darkest hour, these men create the bonds that form a family"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1977-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Macher, Tom
- Dewey number
-
- 362.292092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV5293.M153
- LC item number
- A3 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Macher, Tom
- Alcoholics
- Men
- Alcoholics
- Halfway houses
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Label
- Halfway : a memoir, Tom Macher
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1013490156
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 273 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501112607
- Lccn
- 2017049581
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013490156
- Label
- Halfway : a memoir, Tom Macher
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1013490156
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 273 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501112607
- Lccn
- 2017049581
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013490156
Subject
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography
- Macher, Tom, 1977-
- Men -- Alcohol use -- United States -- Biography
- Halfway houses -- United States
- Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
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