{"product_id":"mayhem-paperback","title":"Mayhem - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigrid Rausing\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans' sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMayhem\u003c\/i\u003e, she asks the difficult questions those close to the world of addiction must face. \"Who can help the addict, consumed by a shaming hunger, a need beyond control? There is no medicine: the drugs \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e the medicine. And who can help their families, so implicated in the self-destruction of the addict? Who can help when the very notion of 'help' becomes synonymous with an exercise of power; a familial police state; an end to freedom, in the addict's mind?\"\u003cbr\u003e An eloquent and timely attempt to understand the conundrum of addiction--and a memoir as devastating as it is riveting.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigrid Rausing\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and the publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of two previous books: \u003ci\u003eHistory, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEverything is Wonderful\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. She has a PhD in Anthropology from University College London, and is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and St Antony's College, Oxford. She lives in London with her husband, film and theatre producer Eric Abraham.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 31, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47192535236857,"sku":"9781101972618","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/XgMZzjlf5b9781101972618.webp?v=1767899157","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mayhem-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}