A review by mcleary
The Night of the Gun by David Carr

4.0

I love train wreck autobiographies, dark tales of the descent into addiction and squalor and shame and debasement. Perhaps it's because it's a vicarious way of living that life without getting the needle marks. David Carr's tale doesn't disappoint. He falls hard...very hard. From relatively harmless and fun booze and LSD fuelled hijinks to hardcore addiction to smoking crack, wife beating, joblessness, hopelessness and paranoia. Carr certainly lived a particular kind of life, fairly common perhaps, but his memoir is honestly and tenderly written with some interesting ruminations on truth and memory.