{"product_id":"long-past-stopping-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Long Past Stopping: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOran Canfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOran Canfield--son of self-help guru and \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul \u003c\/em\u003ecreator Jack Canfield--tells his surreal story of growing up in \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping. \u003c\/em\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping \u003c\/em\u003eis Oran Canfield's often hilariously harrowing tale of surviving life in the strange lane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuggled 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 \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e--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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith mordant wit, \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e--Booklist\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuggled 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 \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e--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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith mordant wit, \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47386227441842,"sku":"9780061450761","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/da7b32a8b495d62e2882f74ce3522b2d.webp?v=1777905006","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/long-past-stopping-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}