Rachel Resnick is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity profile cover stories nationally in the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women's Health, and BlackBook. She is a contributing editor at Tin House magazine. Her essays and stories have appeared in What Was I Thinking?, Stricken, The Time of My Life, Damage Control, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, The Best American Erotica 2004, Women on the Edge, L.A. Shorts, and Absolute Disaster. She is also the founder and CEO of Writers On Fire, provider of luxury writing retreats both here and abroad.
"With staggering honesty, raw and unsparing humor, novelist Rachel Resnick outs herself as a love junkie." --Vanity Fair "Riveting...Resnick writes about her Dickensian past with no plea for sympathy." --New York Post "A painful story that is fascinating, and in a word, addictive." --Cosmopolitan "Resnick recalls her tumultuous relationships...Her stories are both horrifying and compelling...The voyeurs in us emerge." --San Francisco Chronicle "Incredibly hard to put down...Brutally honest." --New York Observer
In her raw account of love gone wrong, L.A. journalist Resnick (Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick) describes her descent into self-debasement. Resnick's lifelong attraction to unsuitable men--unavailable, abusive and emotionally damaged--hit a perilous stage by the time she reached her early 40s and her last boyfriend, Spencer, who had seemed the "perfect victim to make [her] dreams come true," broke into her house and wrecked her computer. Alternating with her litany of awful relationships--from the scarily egotistical ex-con painter Eddie to the various men who refused to have a baby with her--Resnick delineates her appalling, loveless childhood and the neglect by her hard-drinking mother, who lost custody of her and her younger brother when Resnick was 12. Subsequently, the teenager bounced around foster homes because she was not welcome in the new household of her father, remarried to an Orthodox Jew with four new children of his own. Resnick's memoir is a desperate, self-excoriating attempt to break the victim cycle first taught to her expertly by her mother, "the original love junkie"; engender a tenderness for her rather indifferent father; and mend the estrangement from her brother. Most important in terms of survival in this painfully honest memoir, Resnick found the wherewithal through a support group to heal and reground herself. (Dec.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
"With staggering honesty, raw and unsparing humor, novelist Rachel Resnick outs herself as a love junkie." --Vanity Fair "Riveting...Resnick writes about her Dickensian past with no plea for sympathy." --New York Post "A painful story that is fascinating, and in a word, addictive." --Cosmopolitan "Resnick recalls her tumultuous relationships...Her stories are both horrifying and compelling...The voyeurs in us emerge." --San Francisco Chronicle "Incredibly hard to put down...Brutally honest." --New York Observer
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