I've been there-I used to pray for myself and for all other people who are addicted to some substance. I had compassion for the author / narrator, for his addiction to alcohol. 'congratulations, you're now a sober man.' " "the doctor slaps you on the back on your way out. 15 minutes later, the doctor lifts the headphones off and shows you the small, turd - colored Orgon he extracted from somewhere inside you. You check into the hospital as an outpatient, get anesthetized from the waist down, they put headphones on you and you listen to Enya. "why does this have to be so complicated? I wish they could just cut your 'drinker' out of you. He's an alcoholic, although high functioning, but it begins to interfere with his work.Told by his work that he must go to rehab or else be fired, the author/narrator thinks to himself: This is the story of a young man, living in New York, who was abused as a child. "Dry" is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life-and live it sober. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. From the bestselling author of" Running with Scissors" comes "Dry"-the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.
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