Biography & Memoir· United States
A Million Little Pieces
by James FreyAggregate Editorial Score44/100
Oprah's Book Club
Published 2003430 pagesEnglish
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James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (2003) stands as one of the most significant works of biography & memoir of its era. A raw, brutally honest (if controversially fictionalised) account of a criminal's experience in drug rehabilitation. Frey's memoir became a publishing phenomenon after Oprah's endorsement, and its subsequent controversy reshaped the memoir genre. Themes of addiction, recovery, crime run through the work. The book has received recognition from Oprah's Book Club 2003.
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