Time Is All We Have: Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center - Hardcover

Conrad, Barnaby

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877958351 ISBN 13: 9780877958352

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1989

Synopsis

The author recounts his battle with alcoholism, focusing on his treatment at the drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, describing the day-to-day care, the preparation of patients for the outside world, and the important after-care program

About this title

About the Author:

Barnaby Conrad is the author of twenty-five books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hemingway's Spain, How to Fight a Bull, and Matador, which has sold more than three million copies. He is an artist and former bullfighter and American vice-consul in Spain, founder and codirector of the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference, and a native San Franciscan.

From Publishers Weekly:

Betty Ford's doctor, Joseph Pursch, states in a foreword that this is the best book on alcoholism and drug addiction treatment that he has read. It is among the best written by the author of Matador and some 17 other books. Conrad at age 63 was an alcoholic who had failed in his attempts to stop drinking. Then he entered the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, run on Alcoholics Anonymous principles by recovering addicts. In Conrad's candid, comprehensive account, readers virtually live the patients' experiences. Accounts of his progress and that of fellow alcoholics are interspersed with poignant reflections on F. Scott Fitzgerald and other authors destroyed by drinking. But his concentration in the book is primarily on the people responsible for the center's signal successes. Among them is the former First Lady, no figurehead, but actively engaged in helping other recovering addicts.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0877958351
• ISBN 13: 9780877958352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272