Ninety Days

A suspenseful account of an addict's journey to recovery, by a writer "as intoxicated by language as he was by crack." (A.L. Kennedy)

The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With seventy-three days in rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including the seemingly unshakably sober Asa and Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse.

At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses for the first time with only three days left. Written with uncompromised immediacy, NINETY DAYS begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends -- and tells the wrenching story Clegg's battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.

Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York. He is the author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York. He is the author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man.