Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: As a child, I didn't know that my father and many of the musicians who sat with their wives in our living room, eating nuts and raisins out of cut-glass candy dishes, were junkies. At the age of twenty-one Susan J. Miller received a stunning blow: she learned her father was a heroin addict...read more

The author recounts the effects of her father's secret, fifteen-year addiction to heroin on her and her family as she grew up in New York in the fifties, tracing in a compelling, cumulative style the deceptions of her youth.