Down the Drain

De: Julia Fox

Narrado por: Julia Fox

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.

'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story' TELEGRAPH

‘A masterpiece’ GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1

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. 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. 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 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.

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‘Most startling of memoirs. Within two chapters I, too, was hooked … Fans of Edie Sedgwick, Cookie Mueller and Courtney Love will die for Down The Drain … I think I just accidentally landed on my book of the year’ Paul Flyn, Evening Standard

‘A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story that exposes the terrible repercussions of childhood neglect, society’s routine exploitation of the female body and the hollowness of celebrity’ Telegraph

‘Intense and compelling’ Sunday Times

‘A masterpiece’ Greg James, Radio 1

‘Fox’s willingness to be honest about what has happened to her and the shame she sometimes feels provides a sharp alternative to most survivor narratives that are publicized. She’s an artist who translates her relationships, her overdoses, and other near-death experiences into the art she makes’ Elizabeth Nicholas, The Cut

'Julia Fox is a genius' The Face

'The story of a woman fighting to reclaim her narrative' Cosmopolitan

'Julia Fox is an iconoclast' New Yorker

'Down The Drain is a page-turner' Gay Times

'She is a woman who has lived a thousand lives' Dazed

'When Fox said that her book was a masterpiece she was stating facts' HUNGER

A masterpiece ;)

Best memoir I’ve read yet. A great book and life regardless of Julia Fox’s celebrity

What a life this woman has lived!

I love how candid she is about everything, even when it paints her into a "bad" light. It reminds me a bit of Baby Reindeer where trauma is shown for what it really is - bad things happening to you and self-destruction as result. Truly.

I hope someone makes a movie about Julia based on her book, I would watch it!

Not a single boring moment

Simply the best biography I’ve ever read. I can’t wait to see where Julia’s life takes her next

Masterpiece

A really incredible story, read beautifully by its author. She was right to call it a masterpiece.

comforting, unsettling, inspiring & emotional

Found myself in awe of Julia’s words . The way she shares her story in a raw unfiltered yet beautifully articulated way. I found myself with her in many of the scenarios as her writing is enticingly visual & relatable. As personal as her story was, found such universal themes, especially surrounding girlhood.
Grateful to have listened .

Fantastic

Listened obsessively in only 3 days. Fantastic memoir and what a lovely voice she has

Cried, laughed, screamed in shock.

Listened to it in one day. I have true admiration for Julia, she is a brilliant artist in all the aspects of the word. You must listen for her storytelling style captivates you into her world.

Highly recommend!

Beyond my expectations - Julia has done a truly beautiful job sharing her story and in doing so takes control of her own narrative. Well worth the read.

She’s right it’s a masterpiece

A beautiful look into an epic and heat wrenching life. Ms Julia! Thank you for such an excellent read