The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.

by David Carr

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August 5th 2008 by Simon & Schuster

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Hardcover, 385 pages

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1416541527 (isbn13: 9781416541523)

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Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rear view mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefin...more

[close] Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rear view mirror? In The Night of the Gun, 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 The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun 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.

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.
His lucrative side business as a cocaine dealer? Not all that lucrative, as it turned out, and filled with peril.
His belief that after his twins were born, he quickly sobered up to become a parent? Nice story, if he could prove it.
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.
In one sense, the story of The Night of the Gun 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.
Ferocious and eloquent, courageous and bitingly funny, The Night of the Gun unravels the ways memory helps us not only create our lives, but survive them.

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09/03/08

christa rated it:

Has a copy to sell/swap — Read in September, 2008

There are so few ways to deviate from the addiction memoir outline, short of posthumous publication. The plot lines are easy, like a murder mystery or a romance novel. Your hero is a drunk/junkie/bulimic/sex addict. Your hero faces a lifestyle change in which the options are extreme: change vs. death. Your hero dusts himself off [typically more than once], washes his hair, excavates the past for meaning and and writes something intelligible about how at one point he poked drugs into his eyeball ...more There are so few ways to deviate from the addiction memoir outline, short of posthumous publication. The plot lines are easy, like a murder mystery or a romance novel. Your hero is a drunk/junkie/bulimic/sex addict. Your hero faces a lifestyle change in which the options are extreme: change vs. death. Your hero dusts himself off [typically more than once], washes his hair, excavates the past for meaning and and writes something intelligible about how at one point he poked drugs into his eyeball and seemingly assaulted a cab driver — according to police reports. Now he writes for the NY Times.

That said, addiction memoirs are my favorite genre. David Carr still managed to stun me with The Night of the Gun.

1. As much as this book is about being a bad man who gets all hopped up and punches women in the face, this book is about my truth versus your truth and whether it coalesces with the documented proof. Two people sharing an experience and walking away with such different stories, whether it is:

Who actually owned the gun?
Did David Bowie sing directly to us?
What did witnesses see on 9/11?

Carr, the consummate journalist, provides documentation when possible. Arrest reports and published stories from his archives. Medical records. Direct quotes taken from videotaped interviews with friends and family. It is like he is saying: Look, my lows were low. Lower than you can exaggerate, low. And I’m not just some frat boy bragging about chugging Southern Comfort from a beer bong. Here is the official report.

This has to be the most honest addiction memoir I’ve ever read. And when what actually happened is debated, he defers to the less-broken brain.

2. You can read Anne Lamott and get the sense that she is never going to drink again. She has found a mix of spirituality and hiking, knows her triggers and has a way to sort of “time out” if she has to. After Marya Hornbacker wrote Wasted, it was hard to imagine her swirling her spoon around a mound of frozen yogurt again, lazily lapping at it for the next hour, getting full, and again dropping below 60 pounds. Maybe it’s because Carr is so committed to the best truth he can find, or because his teeter from 14 years of sobriety was so seamless — a simple hand-to-mouth muscle memory, almost — that this doesn’t memoir doesn’t necessarily feel like him riding off into the sunset. This feels like the wind could change any minute and he could be marinating his organs in gin.

An addict is an addict, he gets this: “I could be drunk tomorrow or shooting dope even as you read this, but the chances of that are low as long as I make a daily decision to embrace who I really am and then be satisfied with that at the end of every day,” he writes.

3. Carr seems to realize that addiction comes before everything. His loyalty to Jayson Blair’s fight is surprising, especially considering that Carr is so attracted to hard work and honesty. But when the NY Times reporter is outed for falsifying stories, Carr chases him down and begs him to not fall off the wagon in this moment. Maybe Carr is considering the reputation he built as a journalist, later doused in kerosene, and through the virtue of hard work and forgiveness, was able to resuscitate.

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01/27/09

Patrick O'Neil rated it:

The first half of the book was hard to read. Not because of the drug use, or the insanity that any human being's downward spiral consists of - dope fiend, or otherwise. No, the problem I had was I hated the narrator from the very first few pages. David Carr, or more specifically, Carr's behaviors and his lack of taking responsibilities, even now, years later. How he slapped his women around and treated others like shit. He even mentions this possibility, how the reader may not like him, and then...more

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08/22/08

Anthony Breznican rated it:

Read in August, 2008

recommends it for: crime-story fans, journalists, troubled souls

"You can't know the whole truth," says David Carr. "But if there is one, it lies in the space between people."

Something haunting in that line, and relevant to anyone regardless of whether they share Carr's story of self-destruction and recovery.

This reformed thug, drug addict and spiraling loser pulls out of the dive at a critical moment, rescues his infant twin daughters (or is it the other way around?) and rebuilds a shattered career ...more

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09/17/08

Christina rated it:

bookshelves: currently-reading

I think this will be my last drug memoir for a while. The author is so evidently and coolly cashing in. I"m sure he'll be a big hit on the literary seminar circuit.

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10/29/08

Raven rated it:

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The concept of this book is great: as a former drug addict, David Carr has trouble recalling a great portion of his own life. Now an established reporter, Carr uses his reporting tools and techniques to uncover his own past. I believe everyone has a story, and I have no-doubt that Carr's is an interesting one. The research is promising, but the delivery needs serious work.

I cannot get through this book. I have tried & tried. I cannot seem to read more than four pages at a time. I am...more

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09/04/08

Cynthia rated it:

Read in September, 2008

As I am reading this book currently, I have thus far learned that drugs and alcohol give you selective memory and you can be a real jerk on them.
Okay, I am crawling closer and closer to the end (I don't have as much time to read as I used to.) I hate to say it but I am now enjoying this book and beginning to kind of like David Carr.
But how did his twin daughters survive without health or behavioral issues while their mother smoked crack while pregnant? I guess my ob-gyn was right ma...more

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08/21/08

Ashley rated it:

Read in August, 2008

This is perhaps the best memoir I have ever read. The approach Carr takes to this overbaked genre is unique and genre-busting. He reports on his own life--interviewing, researching, synthesizing--and ends up with an endlessly engaging, brutally honest tome about a remarkable life. His voice is gritty, kind of wiseguy-ish, full of easy slang, reminded me of Jim Knipfel (which I consider to be a huge compliment, by the way). I couldn't read this book fast enough, stayed up late in the evening to r...more

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09/17/08

Anne rated it:

Read in September, 2008

recommends it for: memoir "junkies" like myself

While I wanted to love this book, and it certainly provided some excellent gaper's block moments, overall I cannot say I would reccomend it. The concept is excellent: approaching a memoir from the perspective of a journalist. The result comes off as blowhard-y and bragadocious. Carr pretends to soul-search, but ultimately offers little in terms of wisdom about addiction or recovery. His descriptions of himself tend toward the hyperbolic. He was the WORST addict, the most THUGGISH white boy ...more

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12/31/08

Caroline rated it:

Read in January, 2009

This book starts out as a riveting investigative portrait of an addict's life, told by the addict, with the supposed "new twist" being that he uses his own rigorous journalistic techniques to fact-check his recollections. Memories he though were irrefutable turn out to be all-too-refutable by his friends and family as he digs through his messy past to try to discover the "truth" about what really happened in his chaotic life.

Carr actually maintains for quite a ...more

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03/29/09

Bill Hall rated it:

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Read in October, 2008

"Harrowing" might be the best single word to describe David Carr's memoir, "The Night of the Gun." Carr survived years of heavy cocaine and alcohol use and a bout with cancer to become an attentive father to his daughters, a faithful husband, and a productive and successful journalist. This is the story of his journey to hell and back (and a trip back to the hell of addiction after 14 years of sobriety).

Addiction memoirs are quite popular these days, but the genre...more "Harrowing" might be the best single word to describe David Carr's memoir, "The Night of the Gun." Carr survived years of heavy cocaine and alcohol use and a bout with cancer to become an attentive father to his daughters, a faithful husband, and a productive and successful journalist. This is the story of his journey to hell and back (and a trip back to the hell of addiction after 14 years of sobriety).

Addiction memoirs are quite popular these days, but the genre suffered a severe blow in the wake of the scandal over James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces." Carr could be considered the anti-Frey. Throughout most of his life in addiction, and afterward, Carr has been a successful journalist. He brought his considerable writing and reporting skills to this project. Armed with his reporter's notebook and a video camera, he went out to comb through arrest and medical records and to face those who were in the middle of the maelstrom with him--and those who suffered with him.

The results are painful, and often, surprising. The title of the book refers to what he remembers vividly as a night when a close friend pulled a gun on him.

It didn't happen that way.

The evidence actually points to the opposite conclusion--that Carr was the one with a gun. He finds this hard to process, since he never recalls even owning a gun. This wasn't the only jarring memory had to confront. He faces the mother of his twin daughters, who remains convinced that Carr "stole" them from him. This time, though, Carr's memories, the memories of others, and the documentary record tend to support his conclusion--that he rescued them from a bad, possibly dangerous living situation (the girls' mother was even deeper in the grip of addiction than Carr).

Taking over as primary parent of his daughters seems to have been the pivotal moment in Carr's journey. The shock of realization that he's responsible for two young innocents propels Carr to rebuild the shattered pieces of his own life.

"The Night of the Gun" offers not only insights into the destructive power of substance abuse, but useful insights into the nature of memory itself.

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02/24/09

Kate Gaidos rated it:

Read in February, 2009

Reporter David Carr's answer to James Frey: For Carr's "junkie memoir," instead of just recalling (or fabricating) the past, he actually visits and interviews the people he did drugs with, bought drugs from, or hurt when he was on drugs int he 1980s. He interviews his lawyers, his ex girlfriends, his counselors, and the twin daughters whose birth helped bring on his recovery. He hopes this tactic will help him test his own memories and learn who he really was under the influence of coc...more

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01/03/09

Pris robichaud rated it:

Read in January, 2008

The Epiphanies Are Fascinating, and The Scabs Gnarly, August 9, 2008
"Carr takes as a given that our memories are suspect, compromised by the understandable desire to make a coherent story from shapeless experience, to cast ourselves in the role of hero (or dashing villain), and to inject a bit of drama when the plot begins to sag." Jennifer Reese

David Carr, media critic for the New York Times has written an extraordinary book of his life of addiction. He tells the t...more The Epiphanies Are Fascinating, and The Scabs Gnarly, August 9, 2008
"Carr takes as a given that our memories are suspect, compromised by the understandable desire to make a coherent story from shapeless experience, to cast ourselves in the role of hero (or dashing villain), and to inject a bit of drama when the plot begins to sag." Jennifer Reese

David Carr, media critic for the New York Times has written an extraordinary book of his life of addiction. He tells the truth, but not enough of himself is disclosed. I don't get a feel for the man until later in the book. True he researched this book like a journalist- he traced all of his old contacts and interviewed them because his memory was faulty at best. His depicitions and summaries of his friends and lovers are all well drawn out and illustrated. The story is not pretty. He started out as a drunk- one of 3 or 4 in his immediate family, by the way. He then moved on to cocaine and finally injecting it. Drugs were his life, he lived for them. His friends were the ones who helped him get his drugs. His girlfriends, part of the crowd. And he worked to buy the drugs,got fired, somehow got drugs again and found a job and on and on. His girlfriend Anna, got pregnant and on the night he gave her a needle to inject cocaine, her water broke. The twins were born 2 1/2 months early. He still did drugs and so did she. He gave up drugs the night he left his twins in the car in the middle of winter to go buy his drugs- he left them in the car for 5 minutes or was it hours- who knows?

David Carr goes straight for many years. Bringing up his twins alone for six years, meets the love of his life, marries, has another child, moves along on his journalism carrer. The portrait of his family, his twin girls and wife are revealing and insightful. And, then, well things were too good, so he starts drinking again. Up until this portion of the story, it is pretty cut and dry and sometimes boring. The latter part of his life with his new wife and children are the most interesting portions. He and his family are brought to life. I start to care about this man and the women in it. His story is straight and true, and not as hyped up and gaudy as James Frey's story of addiction. David Carr finally comes to life and in just in time.

"The epiphanies are fascinating, and the scabs gnarly
Even when Carr does eventually enter rehab and make good, his tale veers unnervingly from the familiar and reassuring arc of the recovery narrative. Maybe that's what happens when you stick to the facts. Carr is as immoderate in his drive to unearth every detail of his sordid past as he once was to hoover up that last grain of coke on the floor. You may not forgive Carr his flamboyant misdeeds as readily as he seems to forgive himself, all the while patting himself on the back for his brutal honesty. But he is an undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist. "Jennifer Reese

Recommended. prisrob 08-09-08

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12/09/08

Dwhren rated it:

Read in December, 2008

Written by New York Times reporter David Carr, this book is written based on memories, interviews, and documentation about Carr's earlier life as a cocaine addict. After discussing the titled night of the gun with a friend and reading his twin daughters college admission essays, Carr realizes that perhaps the memories he has of his life as a drug addict and his experiences overcoming the addiction may not be what actually happened. He conducts interviews with people involved in his life during...more

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12/02/08

Mike rated it:

When I first read about this book I thought: Do we really need another book about an individual's battle with drugs and alcohol? It seems that every month there is a new addict memoir. What intrigued me about Carr's book was his technique, a clear reaction to the scandal surrounding James Frey's memoir exposed as addiction fiction. Carr decides to use his journalism skills to investigate his life as an addict. He does research reading police reports, news articles, letters, diaries, etc. and con...more When I first read about this book I thought: Do we really need another book about an individual's battle with drugs and alcohol? It seems that every month there is a new addict memoir. What intrigued me about Carr's book was his technique, a clear reaction to the scandal surrounding James Frey's memoir exposed as addiction fiction. Carr decides to use his journalism skills to investigate his life as an addict. He does research reading police reports, news articles, letters, diaries, etc. and conducts numerous interviews to see how his memories of several past incidents jive with his memory of them.

As he investigates, he discovers that crucial pieces of the story of his life were not as he remembers. This is not surprising given the state he was in when they occurred (drunk and stoned and more). The fact that most of the people he interviews were in the same state also means their memories are equally suspect. Most disturbing are the pieces of documentary evidence, including medical records and police reports, that point to entire incidents that Carr has no memory of. The whole exercise is quite interesting as an examination of memory and how we choose to construct our own stories.

The narrative arc follows other similar works I have read. The beginning is all about the addiction; middle section on the epiphany or moment when the addict knows he has to change; final section is about life post-recovery. The very thing that makes this original--the journalistic attempt to verify or correct memories--proves to be the book's biggest problem. Every time a new character in his life is introduced, the reader can expect the second half of the chapter to be a modern-day interview with that person. It all gets to be a bit contrived and forced after a while and the constant jumping from past to present tends to interrupt any real narrative rhythm or coherence.

Another issue some readers might have with this book is that Carr is far from a sympathetic character for the first two hundred pages (and he knows it). Not only is he a drunk and a junkie but he repeatedly strikes women in his life. There were several times during the early part of the book, where I found myself thinking, Why do I care about this jerk?

Even with these criticisms, Carr's story is compelling enough that you keep reading. And, Carr is an excellent writer who paces the story quite well. He is attuned to a reader who might grow disgusted with his antics/attitude and--at just the right moment--foreshadows the changes to come, which keeps interest from flagging. Despite my early reaction to the book and its self-centered, self-obsessed narrator, I found that he not only kept me reading but had won me over by the end.(less)

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11/29/08

W rated it:

What the book really needs is a review by a reliable addict. Doesn’t exist, I know, but it should. At first, I thought THE NIGHT OF THE GUN a daring approach to the memoir quagmire—what’s real, what’s not. Carr promises to take ruthless honesty in researching the facts of one’s past to the fifth power.

Who actually had the gun that night? This is a common experience in most people. Well, not guns, but it is always startling to suddenly realize a dearly held memory is unrelat...more What the book really needs is a review by a reliable addict. Doesn’t exist, I know, but it should. At first, I thought THE NIGHT OF THE GUN a daring approach to the memoir quagmire—what’s real, what’s not. Carr promises to take ruthless honesty in researching the facts of one’s past to the fifth power.

Who actually had the gun that night? This is a common experience in most people. Well, not guns, but it is always startling to suddenly realize a dearly held memory is unrelated to reality. I recently learned that a childhood friend whom I vividly recall seeing hit and killed by a car outside his house is alive and well all these years and is enjoying life. I was five, but Yikes!

So, okay, here’s a guy, a typical recovering alcoholic, who is going typically way over the top in fourth and fifth stepping his ego. He goes back home and video tapes his interviews with all the folks he had harmed, and is going to make a full, ruthless, irrefutable confession in this memoir. And, I’m impressed. Here’s an award winning journalist with big market recognition putting it all on the line.

However, for all the commitment to ruthless honesty, he glosses over many people and incidents—understandably protecting those innocents that he vowed not to. Let the chips fall on whomever, but for you, my dear, an umbrella.

I grew a little jaundiced but remained intrigued–until, late in the book, where he talks about falling off the wagon periodically. Worse, he offhandedly mentions he was abusing prescribed Oxycontin during “sobriety,” and while writing the book. Maybe the point is brilliant—a true depiction of the addict’s self-deception--who could be more duplicitously oblivious to the amorality of addiction than the one who has consciously and unconsciously know it so long.

Frankly, when the Oxycontin made its appearance the story collapsed. No matter the reason for the prescription, there is no sobriety with Oxycontin. As they say in AA, “don’t bullshit a bullshitter,” especially yourself. Oxy empowers the lizard brain in ways that defies reason, logic, or any vestiges of dignity.

It’s an interesting story, but it lacks the redemptive quality. Carr is more in the process of recovering than recovery. Third hand reports identified a besotted Carr at the Democratic convention.

Moreover, the book does not solve the memoir dilemma as to what’s real, and what’s not. Rather, it proves the problem. Memoirs are as selective of memory as memory is of the past, and the past often remembers little.

I’d rather read James Frey on L.A. “The final belief,” Wallace Stevens wrote, “is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else.”

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06/10/09

S. Michael rated it:

Autobiographical tales featuring survivors of drug addiction and substance abuse have always been popular. There is something intriguing about listening as someone describes hitting rock bottom, and then somehow managing to miraculously turn themselves around.

Of course, such books are so popular that one must sometimes wonder whether the facts have been embellished for the sole purpose of entertainment. The debacle surrounding A Million Little Pieces alerted the literary community to...more Autobiographical tales featuring survivors of drug addiction and substance abuse have always been popular. There is something intriguing about listening as someone describes hitting rock bottom, and then somehow managing to miraculously turn themselves around.

Of course, such books are so popular that one must sometimes wonder whether the facts have been embellished for the sole purpose of entertainment. The debacle surrounding A Million Little Pieces alerted the literary community to the dangers behind that. While biographies involve investigations on behalf of the author, autobiographies become suspect, as the possible motivations of the self-diarists make them unreliable witnesses at best.

This is where David Carr's book steps away from the rest of the pack. The Night of the Gun almost doesn't qualify as an autobiography. He remembers very little of what actually occurred during his days of drug abuse, and what he does remember is almost wholly unreliable. So, be an investigative reporter, he uses the skills on hand to delve into the mystery that is his own life.

This is where Carr's book leaves the others behind. He wanders through the down and out periods of his life with a grim curiosity that never lapses into self-pity or melodrama. He could be writing about somebody else entirely, and in some ways, he is. His style isn't emotionless; one would have to be truly cold and indifferent not to feel something while looking back on some of the things Carr did had had done to him. But there is a slight detachment from the source material that keeps his observations from becoming self-serving or, even worse, self-pitying. He not only makes no excuses for his own actions, he doesn't even understand some of them himself.

Carr's book will appeal to fans of similar books, such as Permanent Midnight, but don't expect a carbon copy of the format. If Carr's story doesn't appear to have the obviously uplifting ending or tone that you were expecting, that's because it wasn't meant to be that kind of book. Carr isn't telling us his story so we can learn from his mistakes. He exploring his own painful past, like probing the raw nerve beneath a sore tooth, because he just can't bring himself to leave it behind, at last not without knowing what it all must have appeared from the outside looking in.(less)

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02/05/09

Bookmarks Magazine added it

Addiction memoirs are about the last thing most book critics want to read; even the good ones usually�and necessarily�follow a narrative pattern determined by the drugs themselves. All reviewers agreed that David Carr manages to break the mold by injecting his contemporary reporter persona into the tale, adding new insight into the situation of the addict. This alone distinguishes the book from others in the genre. Yet a few reviewers seemed a little weary of the overall addiction narrative and

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12/12/08

J.C. rated it:

Read in December, 2008

Good in Theory, Poor in Practice

For the most part, I thoroughly enjoy stories and memoirs about addiction and climbing out of the deepest holes. The author, David Carr, made a journalistic memoir about his past in drugs and alcohol, which became this book. There are some interesting stories but there was little emotion in this book. I understand that this was more a unbiased look at addiction through the retelling of stories forgotten or misremembered; but, the entire time I was read...more

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05/21/09

Christine rated it:

Read in April, 2009

To avoid comparisons with James Frey (the addict who fictionalized parts of his life story in “A Million Little Pieces”), author David Carr takes a different approach to truth-telling in his own story of addiction in “The Night of the Gun.“ Carr gets to the facts the way any good journalist (like Carr himself) would ferret out the truth--by returning to the scene of the crime and interviewing the witnesses.

Carr begins this journey with what he imagines to be the worse night ...more To avoid comparisons with James Frey (the addict who fictionalized parts of his life story in “A Million Little Pieces”), author David Carr takes a different approach to truth-telling in his own story of addiction in “The Night of the Gun.“ Carr gets to the facts the way any good journalist (like Carr himself) would ferret out the truth--by returning to the scene of the crime and interviewing the witnesses.

Carr begins this journey with what he imagines to be the worse night of his life (the night of the gun in the title) and discovers memory is a tricky thing. While talking over this horrible event with his best friend, he learns that his recollection of the events is not exactly what occurred. In fact, the truth is even more bleak than he had recalled. So, too, is much of the rest of the story.

It’s not a pretty tale, and while the brutal honesty of his examination is admirable, Carr is not an easy man to like. His self-centered view, his utter disregard for others, his brutality and violent behavior all make for some hard-going in this story. Even when Carr appears to have weathered the worst of life (conquering his addiction to cocaine, gaining control of parental responsibility for his daughters, becoming a successful journalist), there is still more horror to reveal.

The way Carr reaches the truth about all of this is to interview the people who populated his life, from famous comedians to streetwise addicts. Over a period of time, he reconstructed his past via videotaped interviews, medical records, police files, and a variety of other documentation. It’s all compelling, but perhaps in the way you would rubberneck at an accident along the side of the road. It takes a strong stomach for the journey, but there are rewards along the way.

The book will surely be most interesting to recovered and recovering addicts or those who have a loved one who has gone down the same road as Carr. For the rest of us, the book still contains some interesting ideas and lessons about life, but it’s a dark slog through the underside to get there, a journey not everyone will want to take. Perhaps most profound in this story is that what turned out to be the impetus for overcoming the overwhelming odds of addiction was a family and a willingness to work hard…and a desire for the truth about it all.
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03/03/09

Connie Kuntz rated it:

Read in March, 2009

recommended to Connie by: My Mom
recommends it for: people who are trying to be less judgmental

Because of his drug addiction and convenient memory lapses, David Carr forgot several years of his life. Determined to learn and face the truth, he purchased some digital recording devices and interviewed the people (from ALL circles) in his life who remembered (or manufactured their own memories of) David Carr. David Carr, to be blunt, behaved despicably. That is not my judgement, that is an ugly fact about someone who snorted coke, hit women and treated his family like crap. But all that a...more

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