Down the Drain (Unabridged) Down the Drain (Unabridged)

Down the Drain (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.


Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.

This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, 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. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable 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.

More 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. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
JF
Julia Fox
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:03
hr min
RELEASED
2023
October 10
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
530.8
MB

Customer Reviews

GregVardy ,

More Than An Autobiography

I liked Julia prior to reading (listening to) this book, but now I LOVE her. I usually get bored of celebrity autobiographies quickly, but I couldn’t put this one down. Her level of self-awareness and shamelessness allows her to strip away hindsight bias and tell her insane life story through an accurate first person lens, beyond a simple recounting of events. This, and the unbelievable events that happened in her life make this autobiography feel like a fantastic fictional novel! I felt like I was a teenager watching Skins for the first time, but this left me feeling inspired and happy. Loved it.

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