{"product_id":"9780061450761","title":"Long Past Stopping : A Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLong Past Stopping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Oran Canfield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOran Canfield—son of self-help guru and \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul \u003c\/em\u003ecreator Jack Canfield—tells his surreal story of growing up in \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping. \u003c\/em\u003eIn this remarkable memoir, writing with a wry and cutting edge, Canfield relates tales of a childhood in flux—being buffeted about among family friends, relatives, rebels, and born-again circus clowns, in an anarchist private school, communes, and libertarian enclaves—and of a young adulthood spent among the ruins of heroin addiction. \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping \u003c\/em\u003eis Oran Canfield’s often hilariously harrowing tale of surviving life in the strange lane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you’d be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told.”\u003cbr\u003e“Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious… [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary…[makes] you laugh out loud.”\u003cbr\u003e“An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e“The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes… The author’s deadpan irony is…brilliant…”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061450761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41049192235214,"sku":"9780061450761","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061450761.jpg?v=1648089537","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061450761","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}