The writer Pat Conroy had called it nothing less than "the War and Peace of addiction", and Frey seemed set for literary stardom. Since its publication, James Frey’s memoir of addiction and redemption had received the most lavish of praise. The book was praised as "like nothing you’ve ever read before… when we were staying up late at night reading it, we'd come in the next morning saying, 'What page are you on?’" Winfrey's endorsement ensured that its sales lifted from the mere thousands into the millions.
Only a matter of months ago, the woman sitting opposite him – Oprah Winfrey, America’s most powerful and influential television host – had endorsed his memoir A Million Little Pieces in her September 2005 Book Club. That’s a lie." The 36-year old author squirmed uncomfortably.
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