The Harder They Fall

The heady, drug-induced decades of the sixties and seventies provide the backdrop for this all-star account of addiction and recovery. Comedians Richard Pryor and John Lewis, musician Grace Slick, actors Malcolm McDowell and Mariette Hartley, writer Anne Lamott, and athlete Doc Ellis give readers an inside look at what can happen when fame and fortune meet the recklessness and ruin of addiction. The disease strikes and topples even those who are seemingly on top of the world.These are personal accounts of hope and miracles showing people who have climbed out from the devastation of addiction to lead lives of extraordinary accomplishment.