Sam Lansky has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is Broken People.
Broken People
Summary
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Library Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, and more. “Profound and affecting.” (Chloe Benjamin) “Broken People leads us through the winds of time and memory to offer a riveting portrait of transformation. I am better for having read it.” (Jamie Lee Curtis) A groundbreaking, incandescent debut novel about coming to grips with the past and ourselves, for fans of Sally Rooney, Hanya Yanagihara and Garth Greenwell “He fixes everything that’s wrong with you in three days.” This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood Hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform “open-soul surgery” on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He’s desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman - who promises ancient rituals, plant medicine, and encounters with the divine - seems convincing, enough for Sam to sign up for a weekend under his care. In a ceremony, Sam learns that love, sex, and friendship are the pillars that form a life. But are the great spirits the shaman says he’s summoning real at all? Or are the ghosts in Sam’s memory more powerful than any magic? At turns tender and acid, funny and wise, Broken People is a journey into the nature of truth and fiction - a story of discovering hope amid cynicism, intimacy within chaos, and peace in our own skin.
©2020 Sam Lansky (P)2020 HarperAudio
The Gilded Razor
Summary
Sharply funny and compulsively listenable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author Sam Lansky.
The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life. By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed from the glittering streets of Manhattan, to a wilderness boot camp in Utah, to a psych ward in New Orleans, he only found more opportunities to create chaos - until finally, he began to face himself.
In the vein of Elizabeth Wurtzel and Augusten Burroughs, Lansky scrapes away at his own life as a young addict and exposes profoundly universal anxieties. Told with remarkable sensitivity, biting humor, and unrelenting self-awareness, The Gilded Razor is a coming-of-age story of searing honesty and lyricism that introduces a powerful new voice to the confessional genre.
©2016 Sam Lansky (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.