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Wasted: A Childhood Stolen, an Innocence Betrayed, a Life Redeemed

by Mark Johnson

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ISBN13: 9781605980416
ISBN10: 1605980412
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As a young child, Mark Johnson and his siblings would turn up to school battered and bruised by their alcoholic father, but no one ever investigated their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks and kept on falling for years. He was stealing at the age of six, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin when he was just eleven. A sensitive and intelligent boy, art college beckoned, but he ended up in prison instead. With searing honesty, Wasted documents Mark's descent into the very depths of addiction and criminality. Hooked on heroin and crack, homeless on the streets of London with a price on his head, no one-least of all Mark-believed he would ever survive, never mind recover. And yet he somehow found the strength to pull through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts. A shocking and inspirational story.

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aaponte, July 2, 2009 (view all comments by aaponte)
this will no doubt be a good book and might help my uncle so this will be a good book
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ISBN:
9781605980416
Subtitle:
A Childhood Stolen, an Innocence Betrayed, a Life Redeemed
Author:
Johnson, Mark
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
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Publication Date:
May 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
307
Dimensions:
8.70x6.00x.83 in. .89 lbs.

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