Sheff, David (2009). Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 149. ISBN 978-0547347929.

Gornall, Jonathan (29 August 2005). "Woman and boy: bad, not beautiful". The Times. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021 . Retrieved 18 April 2022. The editing of the film took seven months in total, during which the movie was completely recut multiple times. Initially Nico Leunen, van Groeningen's long-time collaborator, was not involved in the project; however, van Groeningen became dissatisfied with the editing process and brought Leunen to Los Angeles to reconstruct the film. [14] Release [ edit ] Sheff’s story is honest, reflective and deeply moving. Sadly, it is a story all too relevant for our troubled times. When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and to that of others. That’s ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing.”

To spread the word, I wrote about our family’s experience in an article in the New York Times Magazine. When it hit the newsstands, I received an outpouring of letters from people who’d been or were then facing their own or a loved one’s addiction. Like I’d done, they’d kept it a secret, often from their closest family and friends, bcause they didn’t want to be judged. Non-specialised competitive Festival. FIAPF A-list" (Press release). San Sebastián International Film Festival. September 29, 2018. Archived from the original on October 17, 2018 . Retrieved October 17, 2018. The Beautiful Boy is a book by radical feminist academic Germaine Greer, published in 2003 as The Boy in the Commonwealth by Thames & Hudson and in the rest of the world by Rizzoli. [1] Its avowed intention was "to advance women's reclamation of their capacity for and right to visual pleasure". [2] [3] [4] The book is a study of the youthful male face and form, from antiquity to the present day, from paintings and drawings to statuary and photographs. A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts'. Anne Lamott

He has a disease, but addiction is the most baffling of all diseases, unique in the blame, shame, and humiliation that accompany it. Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin said that the book provided "scholarly text that can't compete with the pictures." [30] In Literary Review, the literary critic Miranda Seymour called the book "a tasty scrapbook of male beauty". [31] Reviewing the book for Australian Book Review, Ian Britain commented that, "There's little here, in fact, that you could call argument, in the sense of a coherent succession of reasoned propositions: nothing so solid or stable to argue against; nothing so stolid or boring. When not beguiled by the next image of upwardly nubile flesh, sumptuously reproduced from the work of the world's great visual artists, you're more at risk of being left stupefied by the next authorial assertion." [32] Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0312254643. Jonathan Gornall commented on the book in The Times, calling it "a somewhat iffy collection of pictures of pre-pubescent lovelies from life and art, an illustrated paean of praise for the beauty of the young male presented as a feminist rallying cry for women's right to ogle under-age male totty." [33]

Sheff is originally from Boston, Massachusetts. [8] His family is of Russian Jewish descent. [9] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. [8] Career [ edit ] The book contains some 200 pictures of boys through the ages, and is a history of boys in Western art and classical mythology. [2] [10] [11] This includes an analysis of Classical, Neoclassical, and Renaissance art. [12] Pictures and discussions range from Cupid to Elvis, Boy George, Kurt Cobain, and Jim Morrison. [2] There has been some criticism that the film omits a key element of Nic's story - that he worked as a gay hustler in San Francisco and New York to fund his drug addiction, even though Nic identified as heterosexual. This is covered in Nic's own memoir but not covered at all in the film. [33] Accolades [ edit ] Award Foreman, Liza (August 24, 2012). "Cameron Crowe Moving Forward With 'Beautiful Boy' (Exclusive)". TheWrap . Retrieved August 22, 2017.

Barnes & Noble: Discover Great New Writers Award". Archived from the original on March 28, 2009 . Retrieved May 7, 2009.My generation experimented with drugs and, now that we are parents, we’re caught off guard. We never contemplated having to face what David Sheff has faced. He writes with candor, courage, and grace his family’s harrowing – and sadly not atypical – story. Beautiful Boy is an important book. It is moving, timely, and sobering. It’s also startlingly beautiful.”