The Black Pool: A Memoir of Forgetting
May 2025 · Hachette UK
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256
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About this ebook
'Wildly brilliant . . . a memoir of addiction and recovery for the ages, a stone cold classic of the form. I was floored by the power and beauty of this book'
DONAL RYAN, author of The Queen of Dirt Island
'Raw and powerful'
IRISH TIMES, Books to look out for in 2025
'Extraordinary'
LISA McINERNEY, author of The Rules of Revelation
'Unflinchingly honest, heart-wrenching and life-affirming'
RTÉ, Books we're looking forward to
Following an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood, it's about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence - from work, to relationships, to writing, to anger.
The Black Pool shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It's a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. Towards the end, it achieves something like serenity - something like recovery.
DONAL RYAN, author of The Queen of Dirt Island
'Raw and powerful'
IRISH TIMES, Books to look out for in 2025
'Extraordinary'
LISA McINERNEY, author of The Rules of Revelation
'Unflinchingly honest, heart-wrenching and life-affirming'
RTÉ, Books we're looking forward to
Following an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood, it's about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence - from work, to relationships, to writing, to anger.
The Black Pool shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It's a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. Towards the end, it achieves something like serenity - something like recovery.
About the author
Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the long poem Rory Gallagher--Live!--from the Hotel of the Dead and the memoir The Black Pool. A book of poems and a book of short stories are also forthcoming.
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