Description: In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina's former lover, and Hans's former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of. At the time of Sturgeon's confession, Stephen Elliott is paralyzed by writer's block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco's underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott's own father.So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton's celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self.
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Book Title: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Memoir
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Stephen Elliott
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Topic: Drug Abuse, San Francisco, Self Abuse, True Crime
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
8 3/4" x 5 1/2": 208 pages
