Synopsis
I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch.
So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon....
Details
15 September 2022304 pages
9781035005635Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Like the best memoirs, Life's Work is intimate, exquisitely observed, and intense. But unlike most—and what sets it apart—is the heartbreak it embodies, the finality it signals. This is David Milch's farewell, and it will rock you.Susan Orlean
A heartrending cry from the horizon line of consciousness, a hilarious yarn of the truth-telling variety, and a brutal case history of addiction and self-destruction, written in the most gorgeously humane voice I’ve encountered in a work of nonfiction in a long while. I can think of few recent books that have pulsed with life this transparently, this powerfullyRick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
A wise, sly, hilarious, and poignant account of a life’s work in hard drugs and hard televisionJoshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus
