REVIEWS of James Salant's LEAVING DIRTY JERSEY
| New York Times Sunday Book Review |
"(Salant) makes his mark by telling his tale plainly and well." | |
| Salon.com |
"Leaving Dirty Jersey" recounts how its young author scored, stole, scammed and screwed his way through an increasingly desperate addiction, then managed to overcome it and write a book with the terrifying energy and harsh, overlit violence of a Tarantino movie." "Not for the weak of heart or stomach, (Salant's) memoir is a dirty bomb lobbed from the trenches of crank addiction." |
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| The Guardian | "(Leaving Dirty Jersey's) monstrous suburban angst shows you don't have to go to war to scare yourself silly. Salant writes with the mild puzzlement of a man surprised to be still alive. If the drugs hadn't killed him it was small wonder some of the company he kept didn't." | |
| The East Hampton Star |
"... extraordinary and brutally honest..."
"(Leaving Dirty Jersey) is simply and crisply written. Mr. Salant has a real knack for true-sounding dialogue, and despite the grimy and sordid quality of what he describes, manages to inject no small amount of self-effacing humor into the narrative." |
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