{"product_id":"down-the-drain","title":"Down the Drain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eThe hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' (\u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Intense and compelling'\u003c\/strong\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story'\u003c\/strong\u003e TELEGRAPH\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A masterpiece'\u003c\/strong\u003e GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eJulia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film \u003cem\u003eUncut Gems\u003c\/em\u003e; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is \u003cem\u003emost\u003c\/em\u003e famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eThis commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in \u003cem\u003eDown the Drain\u003c\/em\u003e. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents' volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs \"The Artist\"; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eYet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn't just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience-it's all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eMore than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as \"a masterpiece\" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. \u003cem\u003eDown the Drain\u003c\/em\u003e is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 336 pages | Published October 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63996995371357,"sku":"9780008637941","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780008637941.jpg?v=1774583929","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/down-the-drain","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}