{"product_id":"2940170509638","title":"The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbig\u003eDo we remember only the stories we can live with?\u003c\/big\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Gun\u003c\/i\u003e, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Gun\u003c\/i\u003e is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr's investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing -- and, in the end, more miraculous -- than he allowed himself to remember. Over the course of the book, he digs his way through a past that continues to evolve as he reports it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e That long-ago night he was so out of his mind that his best friend had to pull a gun on him to make him go away? A visit to the friend twenty years later reveals that Carr was pointing the gun. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His lucrative side business as a cocaine dealer? Not all that lucrative, as it turned out, and filled with peril. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His belief that after his twins were born, he quickly sobered up to become a parent? Nice story, if he could prove it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The notion that he was an easy choice as a custodial parent once he finally was sober? His lawyer pulls out the old file and gently explains it was a little more complicated than that. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In one sense, the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Gun\u003c\/i\u003e is a common one -- a white-boy misdemeanant lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding, and a support group that will go unnamed. But when the whole truth is told, it does not end there. After fourteen years -- or was it thirteen? -- Carr tried an experiment in social drinking. Double jeopardy turned out to be a game he did not play well. As a reporter and columnist at the nation's best newspaper, he prospered, but gained no more adeptness at mood-altering substances. He set out to become a nice suburban alcoholic and succeeded all too well, including two more arrests, one that included a night in jail wearing a tuxedo. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ferocious and eloquent, courageous and bitingly funny, \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Gun\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the ways memory helps us not only create our lives, but survive them.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170105704688,"sku":"2940170509638","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170509638_p0.jpg?v=1763711069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170509638","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}