The Feel-Good Hit of the Year

A Memoir

Liam Pieper

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HAMISH HAMILTON
15 May 2014

Memoirs; Coping with drug & alcohol abuse; Biography - Australian

Hilarious, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year is a memoir about family, drugs and learning how to live with yourself, from a sharp and original new Australian voice.

What happens when a young man adopts the practices of a counterculture, without any of its ethics? Liam Pieper was raised by his bohemian parents to believe in freedom and creativity, and that there's nothing wrong with smoking a little marijuana to make life easier. Nothing if not precocious, he used these lessons to develop a fledgling drug habit and a thriving business selling pot from the back of his pushbike. Liam's adventures as a teen entrepreneur taught him many valuable skills, like how best to enrage a deranged jujitsu master, and how to negotiate pocket money with his parents based on how much he was charging them for an ounce. But from these highs (chemical and otherwise), Liam's life began to spiral down to some striking lows.

After a family tragedy and then his arrest on several counts of possession and trafficking, Liam had to pause and ask himself: How the hell did I get here? This is the story of how he got there - from muddled flower child to petty criminal to amoral coke monster - and of how he finally found some kind of way out.

By: Liam Pieper
Imprint: HAMISH HAMILTON
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 361g
ISBN: 9780670077557
ISBN 10: 0670077550
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 May 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

Will break your heart and give you chuckles. What more do you want?' - John Safran. 'The most achingly funny, heartsplittingly tragic and brilliantly written book you'll read this year. To lead a deranged, tragic and funny life is one thing, but to make a book this unsentimentally beautiful out of it is nothing short of criminal. Read it before every other goddamn person does.' - Benjamin Law. 'I always knew Liam was talented and I'd always suspected he had a couple screws loose, and now I have proof of both. The Feel-Good Hit of the Year is a brilliant piece of work.' - Anna Krien 'This carefully constructed memoir deftly touches on some of the most difficult subjects: addiction, shame, guilt and the bitter-sweet troubles of family relationships. This is a clever book executed by a skilful writer with a razor-sharp wit... Pieper's book is crazy good. He had me hooked from the first page to the last.' - Krissy Kneen