Long Past Stopping - by Oran Canfield (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the son of Jack Canfield, creator of the bestselling self-help series Chicken Soup for the Soul, comes a wry, edgy, and often hilarious memoir about his struggle to overcome a childhood dismantled by hypocrisy and an adulthood plagued by heroin addiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Oran Canfield--son of self-help guru and <i>Chicken Soup for the Soul </i>creator Jack Canfield--tells his surreal story of growing up in <i>Long Past Stopping. </i>In this remarkable memoir, writing with a wry and cutting edge, Canfield relates tales of a childhood in flux--being buffeted about among family friends, relatives, rebels, and born-again circus clowns, in an anarchist private school, communes, and libertarian enclaves--and of a young adulthood spent among the ruins of heroin addiction. <i>Long Past Stopping </i>is Oran Canfield's often hilariously harrowing tale of surviving life in the strange lane.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Juggled between an endless succession of friends, relatives, anarchist boarding schools, libertarian commune dwellers, socialist rebels, and born-again circus clowns, Oran Canfield grew up viewing the inconsistencies of the world with a wary eye. The son of Jack Canfield--the motivational speaker and creator of <em>Chicken Soup for the Soul</em>--Oran is intensely self-conscious and reserved, but his life can't seem to leave him alone. Whether he's teaching two hundred eager self-help disciples to juggle (among them a woman with stumps for hands), dodging a series of wacky near-death experiences, delivering newspapers in satin pants on a unicycle, or experimenting with drugs in the back of a Mexican cop car at age thirteen, one thing's for sure: Oran's life is much stranger than fiction. </p><p>With mordant wit, <em>Long Past Stopping</em> grapples with the paradoxes of a mad world and shows that feel-good nostrums go only so far. Sometimes the only way out is the hard way. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes... The author's deadpan irony is...brilliant..."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious... [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary...[makes] you laugh out loud."--Lisa Ko, author of <em>The Leavers</em><br><br>"Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you'd be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told."--Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself<br>
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