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The Night of the Gun

A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.

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The Night of the Gun

By: David Carr
Narrated by: Charles Leggett
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Summary

 From David Carr (1956–2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope.”

Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr’s investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing—and, in the end, more miraculous—than he allowed himself to remember.

Fierce, gritty, and remarkable, The Night of the Gun is “an odyssey you’ll find hard to forget” (People).©2008 David Carr; (P)2008 Simon and Schuster, Inc. Art & Literature Authors Journalists, Editors & Publishers Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Funny
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One hell of an addiction story meticulously told. Dave rightly mocks the genre before setting off on telling a life story that at times makes your skin crawl in its self-absorbed hideousness.

A quest for truth, but definitely not redemption. Brilliantly documented and told, soulfully read. Five fucking stars

Dark and riveting

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As someone who has spent decades wrestling with substance abuse it is shockingly clear that the only reason this raging narcissist was driven to maintain sobriety was that he found more food for his staggering ego in bleating on about his war stories to those blind enough to to be suckered into the belief that junkies can change.
He recants the age old tales of deceit and transgression like he's some kind of battle worn hero, its distressing that individuals so mind bendingly shallow and selfish are entertained in the circles of recovery and its crystal clear to anyone familiar with this path that he is one of the vultures that feed off the accolades that are blindly bestowed on a real human sess pool purely because they've decided to stop using.

My greatest regret on having listened to hours of him paint himself as some kind of anti hero is that I never had the chance to meet him and punch him in his smug self obsessed face.

A truly revolting human

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